{"id":576,"date":"2005-08-04T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2005-08-04T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T17:24:32","slug":"critical-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2005\/08\/critical-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Life With Alacrity: Dunbar &#038; World of Warcraft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifewithalacrity.com\/2005\/08\/dunbar_world_of.html\">MMORPGS and the Dunbar number<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups &#8212; as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups &#8212; hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50. <b>Anything more than this and the group has to spend too much time &#8220;grooming&#8221; to keep group cohesion, rather then focusing on the thing the people want to spend effort on in the first place &#8212; say to deliver a software product, learn a technology, promote a meme, or <i>have fun playing a game<\/i>.<\/b> Anything less than this and you risk losing critical mass because you don&#8217;t have requisite variety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis mine.  Emphasized because it sounds really<br \/>\nreally<br \/>\nfamiliar.<br \/>\nVery tired of the Alliance Leadership boards today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMORPGS and the Dunbar number This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}