A subscription forum is a recipe for cognitive dissonance b…
A subscription forum is a recipe for cognitive dissonance because you have to invest in the community before you can join it. Therefore, when people say that Metanet ICU is good, you cannot tell if their recommendation is due to cognitive dissonance. @938
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Metanet ICU could resolve this problem with its business model by devising a costly signal that people could use to evaluate the community before investing. However it would fail if it actually did this because the cost would be too great.