Cohen’s law

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Cohen’s law is "The likelihood that any unmoderated group will eventually get into a flame-war about whether or not to have a moderator approaches one as time increases.", and this definition & page needs IndieWeb relevance explicitly added to it.

First cited in Clay Shirky’s A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy talk at Etech 2003, Geoff Cohen restated it in his blog the next day.

See Also

• Geoff Cohen has written a book on Belonging to groups https://www.geoffreylcohen.com/book
• moderation