Trusting Users Too Much

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 12, 2006 @09:21AM from the web-two-point-doh dept.

An anonymous reader writes to alert us to an article at Forever Geek on sites that trust users too much and the users who game them. From the article: "Trusting users is a good thing. But implicitly trusting users is no good. If Digg has moderators who approve a story before it goes live on the front page, shouldn't they have moderators checking spam reports? Social sites give so much power and emphasis on users yet a handful still have the power to wreck these sites. Until these issues are properly addressed, social sites will continue to be gamed."

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Systems can and will evolve. by celardore · 2006-09-12 09:37 · Score: 3, Informative

The internet as we know it is still a baby. As new ideas happen and are implemented, the processes will be refined in some way. Here's a page that explains how such a system can evolve. First a small set of mods, then more, then BAD MODS NO, and metamoderation happened. Bad users on /. are unable to post, etc...
Re:Something I think most of us can say: by kalirion · 2006-09-12 09:44 · Score: 4, Informative

"A person is smart, people are dumb."

That reminded me of one of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes:
"The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters."