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From: Byron Ellacott <bje@apnic.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:12:21 +1000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Derek Licciardi wrote:
[Cut text regarding support for 9/11 victims, nationalism and unionism.]
These three examples are very large but relatively insubstantial
communities, formed from very large and definitely substantial
issues. The interpersonal connections within them are mostly
nonexistant -- except within the smaller communities that form as
part of the larger ones.
That, I feel, is where the 250 person limit comes in. It's a
guideline that tells you when a group will be sufficiently large
that each member cannot have a personal bond with enough other
members to satisfy our need for community. Thus, smaller
sub-communities will form as discreet sections of the greater
community.
Community size: (http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/laws.html)
Ideal community size is no larger than 250. Past that, you really
get subcommunities.
That states it more succinctly than I can (Thanks, Raph). The
greater community still exists, but it's no longer of an ideal size:
it has fractured into subcommunities, chapters, counties, guilds, or
whatever you like to call them.
--
bje
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