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  • All it comes down to is do your members have a shared interest, know and trust each other, and want to participate (a willingness because they want to, not because they are told to)
     - if they do, it will be used

     

    BUT, Critical Mass of people or Network Effects is not as essential in communities as it is in networks, from wikipedia:

     

    “The classic example is the telephone. The more people own telephones, the more valuable the telephone is to each owner. This creates a positive externality because a user may purchase their phone without intending to create value for other users, but does so in any case.”

  • Community Congestion of late:

     

    “The expression “network effect” is applied most commonly to positive network externalities as in the case of the telephone. Negative network externalities can also occur, where more users make a product less valuable, but are more commonly referred to as “congestion”

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