Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class
Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT ( https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu ). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and society. At this point, the class is working on case studies of successful and healthy online communities, where we are seeking insights from online communities we are part of, inspired by, or find interesting. The goal of the assignment is to figure out whether an online community exemplifies or doesn’t exemplify ‘healthy’ behaviors, from the points of view of their own members, on their own terms. I’m here to understand HN from your perspectives and I’m interested in hearing from all of you. What criteria do you use to determine 'health' in online communities? How do these differ from those criteria yo
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Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT ( https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu ). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and s
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- sankalpb
- Ended
- 2020
- Source
- hackernews