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I stopped being a happy user a hell of a long time ago. Why do I like Hacker News? Because I have a snowball's chance in hell of people in the community reading my occasional submissions or answering questions I might pose. The last time I got a front-page story on Digg was 2005 when I posted about some dude faking a story about him giving out Ubuntu cd's at a McDonalds.

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Bingo, there is something very attractive about a small community.

therefore every growing community is doomed to die?

I'd say it's more that the smaller the community, the greater the chance that the community as a whole can agree on what constitutes signal and what constitutes noise.

No, it's that Digg was designed in a way that couldn't scale. There was no method available to keep it going with a larger community. The growing communities that aren't ready to grow - they're the ones doomed to die.

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