From a public discussion in one of the meta groups in Flickr.com

Flickr: FlickrCentral
Flickr Groups – Is there really a community?

Some interesting quotes:

Yolise:

Who says every group has to be a community anyway?

Andreas Helke:

“There are more than 100,000 groups on flickr.I would wish it where lot less. But the current reality is a very fragmented and cryptic group system. As a result I am a member of 900 of them and administrator or coadministrator of 60 groups”

Violentz:

To me the Flickr “community” are my own contacts and friends who comment on my photos and me on theirs.

shhexycorin:

Some groups are communities, some groups places where people go to look at pictures, some groups are utterly pointless. A lot of them are all 3.

iansand:

flickr is the community, not the groups. Groups add something to the community. There are other things that go into the mix.

Noël Lee:

It’s interesting to read this discussion on community because my closest friend and I were just saying yesterday that what makes flickr so addictive is not the photos but the world-wide community.