Holcomb argued that drug dependency courts are more geared toward users of hardcore drugs, and that the approach her group put forward is the sensible one.
Norberg tells me that they've even released new firmware for users, and that the community is "alive and thriving" and backed by a "bunch of hardcore users" that run the shared website.
However, once you've lost the trust of your community — a core group of hardcore users of any number — your service will atrophy, and you will lose your users en masse.
A small group of hardcore users get extra Bitcoins through 'mining' for them: running computers which perform the calculations needed to make the currency work, in exchange for a share of the built-in inflation.
A small group of hardcore users also generate extra bitcoins by "mining" for them – a process that requires computers to perform the calculations needed to make the digital currency work, in exchange for a share of the built-in inflation.
And the website for the New York Times attracts 13 times as much traffic as Digg, according to recent figures from Hitwise, an internet-research firm.Furthermore, Digg and Netscape have heavy users who behave, in effect, rather like editors: most of the stories that end up on Digg's front page are submitted by a very small band of hardcore users.
However, Twitter has not forgotten about its devoted base of hardcore users.
Even as World of Warcraft and other games draw away players, the game once known as EverCrack still happily maintains its share of hardcore users players.
Ban it and move away from the free speech many thought Reddit stood for, and it could see an exodus of hardcore users and the unpaid moderators that run the site, plus stoke a war with the trolls.
If Twitter can figure out what people are willing to buy without breaking its social network's open platform for opinions, it could earn more off its smaller set of hardcore users instead of worrying about growing much bigger to drive ad views.
