> every order of magnitude increase in community size is not linear to the moderation requirement: it is factorial.
> Why? Because every single communication has the potential for abuse, and the number of interactions on a platform do not scale linearly with the increase of users.
I'm not sure this is correct. It sounds like your underlying model is "number of users N, number of potential interactions N x N." But people have finite time and resources. Every user can only post a maximum of T times a day, where T is some constant. So I think the number of actual interactions is linear in N.
You’re thinking of 1:1 communications, I would guess.
In reality twitter is 1:n relationships.
Content that is interacted with may lead to new interactions from unrelated people. So it’s really n:n.
A persons posting time, in any event, easily approaches one’s ability to moderate it. It’s very easy to spew content and requires much more effort to analyse and weight it.
I sincerely believe it’s not in step with the growth of users, instead it is exponential.
> Why? Because every single communication has the potential for abuse, and the number of interactions on a platform do not scale linearly with the increase of users.
I'm not sure this is correct. It sounds like your underlying model is "number of users N, number of potential interactions N x N." But people have finite time and resources. Every user can only post a maximum of T times a day, where T is some constant. So I think the number of actual interactions is linear in N.