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Hypothesis: one major obstacle preventing more communities forming successfully...
New communities are uniquely attractive and welcoming to people with Cluster B Personality disorders, and uniquely bad at dealing with them. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463
New communities are uniquely attractive and welcoming to people with Cluster B Personality disorders, and uniquely bad at dealing with them. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463
Dealing poorly with a Cluster B person takes tonnes of energy and does harm to everyone involved.
I don't know the solution but I guess it involves strong boundaries and filtration systems.
Eg Enspiral hasn't been too badly hit by this phenomenon because we're an invite-only community with explicit sanctions for excluding people if necessary.
Eg Enspiral hasn't been too badly hit by this phenomenon because we're an invite-only community with explicit sanctions for excluding people if necessary.
@Desiato suggests Ostrom's 8 principles of commons governance are a useful lens for designing solutions here
Maybe one of the takeaways here is: if you're in a space where anyone may come in without prior approval, at best you have a place to meet interesting people.
But the deeper kind of mutual vulnerability, growth, belonging etc requires a more strongly bounded space.
But the deeper kind of mutual vulnerability, growth, belonging etc requires a more strongly bounded space.