The Principles of Niche Online Communities
This article discusses the principles of niche online communities within the context of a controversial decision that the niche community Beautifulpeople.com recently made:
"BeautifulPeople.com was founded as an elite online dating community; founded on the niche premise that all members must be “beautiful” in the eyes of community members. Therefore, under those terms, the 5,000 members in question were flagged by their fellow community members as no longer meeting the criteria for membership within the community. The administrators simply upheld their principles and values of their niche community and swiftly retracted membership to the affected 5,000 former members."
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