LJ communities about places
Sep. 13th, 2007 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleLast night, I was talking with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ron_newman about, among other things, the problem of building community. He's trying to moderate the LJ "community" for Davis Square (it's a neighborhood about 3 miles from here). It's complicated by the fact that so many participants are just interested in straightforward information on the order of "What vegetarian restaurants are near Davis Square?" and don't want to get involved in discussion. A fair number of the others are easily sidetracked by distractions on the order of "Why would anyone in their right mind be a vegetarian?" which makes for lively discussion, but not what I think of as community.
I'm sure there are technical tools to help build useful online communities elsewhere, but this thing is on LJ. Are any of you involved in similar communities enough to know how they are moderated or otherwise managed? I'm aware of one for Montreal and one for Inwood, but there might be others.
ron_newman about, among other things, the problem of building community. He's trying to moderate the LJ "community" for Davis Square (it's a neighborhood about 3 miles from here). It's complicated by the fact that so many participants are just interested in straightforward information on the order of "What vegetarian restaurants are near Davis Square?" and don't want to get involved in discussion. A fair number of the others are easily sidetracked by distractions on the order of "Why would anyone in their right mind be a vegetarian?" which makes for lively discussion, but not what I think of as community. I'm sure there are technical tools to help build useful online communities elsewhere, but this thing is on LJ. Are any of you involved in similar communities enough to know how they are moderated or otherwise managed? I'm aware of one for Montreal and one for Inwood, but there might be others.
