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• 19 Aug 10
  

  David Hood

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• 23 Oct 09
  

  Christopher Allen

  BLOGPOST: "This shows that guild cohesion is relatively easy to maintain up to size 10, but becomes much more difficult to maintain as guilds grow larger."
  

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• 16 Jun 07
  

  Ton Zijlstra

  Christopher Allan on Dunbar

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• 07 Jun 06
  

  Erik Stattin

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• 10 May 06
  

  Thomas Vander Wal

  Overview of social networking mappings in World of Warcraft gaming

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• 03 Dec 05
  

  Howard Rheingold

  ypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50. Anything more than this and th

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  • n Nic & Nick's more recent research, they are looking deeper and are mapping social networks on World of Warcraft. Using tools available to them, over the course of the month of August they looked at 241,378 characters and 5569 guilds. From that data they were able to able to discover how often guild members were co-present (online at the same time) or co-located (online and in the same zone in the game).

  • These results strong support my hypothesis in my original Dunbar Number post, where I...

      

    hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50. Anything more than this and the group has to spend too much time "grooming" to keep group cohesion, rather then focusing on why the people want to spend the effort on that group in the first place -- say to deliver a software product, learn a technology, promote a meme, or have fun playing a game. Anything less than this and you risk losing critical mass because you don't have requisite variety.
• 29 Oct 05
  

  Geoffrey Bilder

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  Johann Richard

  There is some more excellent research this week by Nick Yee and Nicolas Ducheneaut in the PlayOn blog. Again, their research provides good insight into social group dynamics as they appear in online games.

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  Richard Tibbetts

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