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Riding the Failure Cascade

Posted by Zonk on from the wreck-you-with-maths dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Escapist has up an article looking at a curve that represents the dissolution of large social groups, like online guilds. Called the Failure Cascade, it's essentially a way of examining the dissociation of members of an organization predicated on a culture of success. They primarily explore this phenomenon using descriptions of EVE corporate alliances. 'These are the two forces at work in [an] alliance's failure cascade: the individual and the guild ... This happens because the failure cascade is the inverse of a network effect. Websites like MySpace define their value by the people that use the service just as guilds define their quality by their members. As bad events cause players to leave or become inactive, the quality drop leads others to do the same in a spiral that rarely stabilizes, until no one is left.'"

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  1. Hello? Hello? by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone here? Where did you all go?

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    1. Re:Hello? Hello? by innerweb · · Score: 3, Funny

      It is just a regular silver/gray matrix. Nothing special.

      InnerWeb

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    2. Re:Hello? Hello? by jeffasselin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, this is Slashdot, we don't give a shit about the car, we want pics of the goddamn flux capacitor.

      Seriously.

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  2. Slashdot: Your Source for Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    November 20th, meet December 14th.

  3. Failure Cascade? by ettusyphax · · Score: 5, Funny

    I never thought I'd see a failure cascade, let alone create one!

  4. No!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You Fool!

    Don't alert them to their faults!! They might actually pay attention! Then they won't shrivel up and die and go away!

    Your words make baby Tux cry!

  5. <The Failure Cascade> by DdJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, does anyone else think would be an awesome guild name?

  6. Also known as by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "An SAP implementation."

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  7. In other words sometimes forums become unpopular by gelfling · · Score: 2, Funny

    People just get tired of them and when a few most vocal persons leave or are kicked out everyone else leaves too. Woow.

  8. Re:Political Parties by MBraynard · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are 52 cards. Give me your money.