causal
Small surface area invites bigger mobs
Basecamp suffered proportionally larger attrition (about 30% versus Coinbase's roughly 5%) partly because its small team-page surface area—publicly listing every employee's name and Twitter handle—made it easy to direct a shaming mob at identifiable individuals.
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Jason FriedEvidence Quote
“it was very easy to throw a mob at that small degree of surface area and literally shame the hell out of people”
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