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Giving some users special privileges that increase their influence may risk detracting from everyone else’s experience.
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Richard Waters
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There is a power law at work in many mass-market Internet services.
A relatively small proportion of users often account for a disproportionate share of activity, whether that means posting on social networks or selling on eBay.
