Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold

Author:Howard Rheingold [Rheingold, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780465004393
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2011-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

Promote quality, discourage crap.

Make Slashdot as readable as possible for as many people as possible.

Do not require a huge amount of time from any single moderator.

Do not allow a single moderator a “reign of terror.”23

The Slashdot system evolved several refinements. Moderators cannot post in the same conversations they moderate, and metamoderators are randomly chosen to assign points to the moderators’ choices, providing a shield against moderator abuse. Because Slashcode is open source, other groups copied it, set up their own discussions, and began to modify the code to create their own variations.

Reputation is even more important in commerce than it is in conversation. Without some kind of trust metric, e-commerce never would have become possible. Although the number of e-businesses has been reduced from thousands to a smaller number of larger enterprises, eBay, the most successful electronic marketplace, combined e-commerce, online affinity groups, and reputation management.

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