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by DannyBee 2957 days ago
One interesting thing the article doesn't seem to cover at all is what it takes to push a community in a particular direction.

It sort of asserts various things work or don't in the real world, which is strange to me, as a lot of that behavior depends on what incentives/etc exist and these are very emergent systems that change.

It doesn't seem to consider very heavily whether vgo will be successful in changing the way people operate at all (despite this kind of thing happening all the time), and instead asserts based on the current state of the world , and random assertions about how people work, what the future will be, and asserts vgo won't change that in various ways. It's all very minimal actual explanation wrapped in a lot of language. It's also all random opinion, simply stated in a matter of fact way, with no real data cited anywhere to back it up. The only thing coming close to presenting a data backed argument then says "we'll look at this in a future part of the series".