The Economist is the only periodical that people should read? Really? The only??In any case, I think if someone is going to spend the time to monitor and read comments, then they take them seriously. It all comes down what type of social interacti...
I like your points and relating it back to my Participation Theory, I think your ideas to seed / foster participation are ultimately impacting the Reward / Effort ratio. By lowering the risk through anonymous posting you could be reducing one's Effo...
I definitely agree that long term viability of a community requires a two-way communication and sharing mechanism to encourage the overall 'network effect' of participation.However, I would make a distinction in the varying levels of participation. ...
It's a fair question.For me personally, my reward is at both the micro and macro levels.At the micro level, responding provides me a platform to evangalize myself as a thought leader to (assumingly) a new audience as well as strengthen/reinforce my p...
Ultimately, I think participation in any activity is tied to what I like to refer to as the: Participation Theory (PT). Broken down simply as:Likelihood of Participation (LoP) = Reward / EffortNow, of course that oversimplifies things immensely beca...