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As @Lundin stated in comments: Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns? A community needs people and quality content. Without enough people, there w...
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#1: Initial revision
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manassehkatz
·
2020-11-11T21:21:32Z (about 4 years ago)
As @Lundin stated in comments: > Because they have 100 or so of them and we don't want to create 100 ghost towns? A community needs people and *quality* content. * Without enough people, there will never be enough content (except spam, perhaps). * Quality content requires people who really know a topic well in order to either seed with quality questions (possibly self-answered) or blogs, articles, etc. If you simply open communities without first recruiting the right people, you won't get the experts. * With a large group of people, the site will be self-starting via Q&A. But that requires a large group of people, which we don't have yet. * Content needs to be grouped properly. That will depend on choices made by the people running a community, but the choices can easily be different - more specialized or more open than the particular groupings that SomeOther site used. Could we, legally, create a clone of every site and seed it with a dump of data from SomewhereElse? Yes, we could. And we would have a big link farm. I really don't like link farms.