After all, neither Rome, nor any other meta-community, was built in a day.

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The site is not so much a community as a meta-community, a collection of many different groups of people with similar interests.

CNN: Web pioneers lay foundation for cyber-communities

This creates a huge community made up of smaller groups and meta-tribes that share a level of trust and bond because of the collective called Forbes.

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