[DanBC]

> All they can really do is try is create tools for small communities to set their own culture, and I think that's where you're spot on; it's currently not possible to use reddit as a platform for an arbitrary community of people because reddit is already a large community.

You might have a chance if you imported a community, and expected patterns of behaviour, from outside.

It's weird that so many people building communities are unaware of places like Meatball or some of the better Usenet troll-diffusing techniques.

Or even good design to present information. A lot of subs just present a wall of text and expect people to read and obey.

You could have a single button with a big sign saying "PUSH BUTTON TO GET COFFEE" and you'd still get people asking how toget coffee. While it fails for some people you've at least reduced that number to as few as possible.

Reddit communities start with a wall of text, and then add extra rules as stuff happens. This means that fewer people read the rules and mods have more work to do.