I don't think we scale very well.

I think that for a wave to go well there need to be enough active, positive, friendly Hubski members that make an individual impact on the new users that stick around, to kind of help impart the idea of the website and also serve as gentle guides as to maybe what's more appropriate or less or so on. I think it has to do with getting new users to make personal connections as much with anything else.

Right now I feel like we are just running around stamping out little fires and trying to keep up with them. If there is a large influx, large and active enough to override the tone that has previously been established here, those who already were present can't do much about it - the concentration is diluted. Ironically the website takes on the flavor of whatever place the new users were fleeing, as it's their frame of reference and their habit.

When 20 new people move in to a row of houses on the block, it's not that you've got new neighbors. You've got a brand new community. And sure you want to get to know them all but it is a lot more difficult to learn 20 new names and personalities than 5. It is easy to become overwhelmed.

Meanwhile the established users continue to slowly leave or wander off.