Falsifian wrote:
1b. Agora's nature as a broadcast email list seems to put limits on
how many active players it can practically sustain. If 100
players were all sending interesting proposals and arguments and
so on, it would be impractical for anyone to keep up. I'm not
claiming to remove this limitation outright, but I do believe
that having a system in place for summarizing information has
the potential to increase the manageable rate of participation.
Maybe the weekly summaries can be a beginning.
We did once get a bunch more registrations from a Slashdot bump, I'd
guess from this post:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/04/14/1643251/perlnomic---an-experiment-in-cooperative-coding
(though the Registrar history doesn't bear that out). I don't think it
ever got close to 100 (not counting corporate persons) but I want to say
it was up in the 30-50 range for a year or so. Not sure how many of them
really participated beyond 'cast a few votes then wander off', though.
If the number of players participating at a comparable level kept
increasing, then at some point we might look at splitting off some of
the discussion to a forum system (even if it was all cc'd to an
Everything List). Probably not everyone is going to be equally
interested in every single thing, I know I end up skimming past some of
the longer and more abstract protos at least.
