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You keep using that word. I wonder if it means what you think it means.

@koglerjs — I understand where you're coming from. The goal of Organized Wonder is to 1) share the videos that you find interesting and 2) Follow people who share similar interests as you so you can watch what they're watching. #2 is where some of the quality control is going to come in, although I realize this isn't as obvious yet since we just launched the beta 3 days ago, and so a lot of the functionality is still waiting to be implemented.

@wcarss — This definitely something we're working on adding.

- Sawyer, Founder of Organized wonder

Put another way, you need volume to gain any traction.

Reddit has a lot of crap because it has a lot of volume: but as a sharing site it has mechanisms to let people en masse filter the crap for the gems. Such as they are, in a place like /r/adviceanimals.

HN has a fair amount of quality because it caters to a very specific crowd and it self-moderates much more mercilessly than reddit; but it still has to deal with the problem of crap.

Upvotes are highly visible. Stories fail. Anyone can say anything. The crap and the site's system for reacting to it makes the process of content gaining traction _demonstrably valid_ to a visitor to the site.

If none of this is immediately obvious in your sharing site, I don't expect it to gain the critical mass it needs for success.

(You might think TED is a counter-example in the Wonderful Videos domain, but the obvious difference is that TED is a content provider, not a sharing site.)

Edit: And you've got the social bubble virus, in that your 'social network' requires people to once again set a glorified address book in order to really leverage your resources. You're too specific for people to want to spend a lot of time cultivating!

Was it really that long ago that "Build a social network for {{x}}" was regarded as a bad idea?