How do online communities self-govern?

Sarah Cone - Column https://joincolumn.com/

Social networks are easily disrupted, rise and fall very fast

• Don't fix with bigger neural network
• Build a different dataset and optimizing for different OBJECTIVE

Column: "information paradise" - a pool of content that is high quality and index and ranked for an objective

• Who is the publisher?
• Who wrote the blurbs?
• How were the reviews?
• Is the book heavily cited?
• Who is the author?

Use governance to create a credibility layer over the internet

• Previously: professors
• Now: Conspiracy theorists?!
• Create a very small social network with the right incentives
  • People won't pay for info - can't tell the value of info until after consumption
  • "Information wants to be free" - comes from "Information wants to be expensive and free"
  • But you don't know what information you want until after
• World in which people can monetize by creating edits of people
  • Editing and curating content and getting the right room together
  • Conversation that endures

Columns = subreddits