Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Hot Streak
boardgamegeek.com
Adit rec
Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People
robkhenderson.com
What’s Right and What’s Wrong with Optimizing for Engagement
medium.com
A crucial element to lowering the stakes of any particular moderation decision is the knowledge that the user has the genuine option to go to another community or start his own. The same applies to moderators: The ultimate check on a moderator’s power is that if most users start to believe he is using it poorly, users can either protest until a new... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
the most painful groups I've had to deal with claim to have no hierarchy or centralised authority, while everyone pretends to not be engaged in a subterranean power struggle between multiple people with competing claims to being the ultimate authority
Richard D. Bartlettx.com“We realized it’s almost better to empower a single editor in each market,” Heafy said, “and centralize the rest of the operations.”
Behind that shift was something few media startups bother to build: a literal playbook. Heafy described a printed manual, four to five inches thick, that detailed every step of launching and operating a local... See more
Behind that shift was something few media startups bother to build: a literal playbook. Heafy described a printed manual, four to five inches thick, that detailed every step of launching and operating a local... See more
Supporting the Digital Safety of At-Risk Users: Lessons Learned from 9+ Years of Research & Training
dl.acm.orgOne common denominator across these myriad settings is that people participating in them have opportunities to set agendas, make plans, take risks, lead and follow, look out for, and give and take with each other. In doing so, they can better understand their own self interests, how they correspond with those of others in the group, and how best to... See more