Ask HN: Has anyone else used online communities that are archetypically "savvy"?

2 pointsposted 3 days ago
by Use

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6 Comments

pavel_lishin

3 days ago

None of what you're describing rings any sort of bell for me.

(Also, I don't think that's what "savvy" traditionally means.)

JohnFen

3 days ago

Me neither. I know of a number of online "enclaves" -- basically private walled gardens -- but that's as close as I come to recognizing anything like what the poster is describing.

pavel_lishin

2 days ago

I suspect this is a case of someone finding out that their experience is not as universal as they think it is.

Use

3 days ago

I think it'd help to view the online community's userbase as savvy in the sense of being "on their guard" for the community having a "dodgy Discord culture" that bleeds into the site or game in question, for lack of a better term. Maybe there's a better name I could come up with, but I don't know of any other discussions about this that point towards a more precise, formal term.

colinwilyb

3 days ago

It sounds like you're describing sites with a userbase that displays unexpected behaviors compared to expectations from visitors. A business would call this institutional knowledge and company culture. In a friends group it would be called group dynamics.

2chan, 4chan, and similar seem to be a perfect example. Users rapidly creating original content, riffing on previous posts, and introducing new content is like a factory that accidentally creates a viral meme through trial and error.

What are you trying to understand by asking this question?

gethly

2 days ago

Nah, Facebook Groups killed it all in 2010s. Now they are dead too but no one went back to the old model. So now we have nothing left.