> If you took away the community entirely, would it be any less useful?
The whole platform is based around the users creating questions and answers. The site puts much of the effort for curation and moderation on to the community, if you visit the chat rooms on there you'll find that there's groups of people who congregate there who do a disproportionate amount of that work of keeping things running smoothly.
So I think there is a risk of the site quality sliding substantially if the currently highly engage segment of the community there disengages.
The whole platform is based around the users creating questions and answers. The site puts much of the effort for curation and moderation on to the community, if you visit the chat rooms on there you'll find that there's groups of people who congregate there who do a disproportionate amount of that work of keeping things running smoothly.
So I think there is a risk of the site quality sliding substantially if the currently highly engage segment of the community there disengages.