On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 22:07:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
But when the project becomes big and it is difficult to
perceive changes that are significant I suppose many will feel
that contributions won't matter, because the context is too
large. The website was small enough and contributions are
visible... so people chimed in.
This is of course some of the dynamics in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
But you can counter it by breaking up into smaller units, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adopt_a_Highway