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Trusting Users Too Much

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can trust this user to post early.

    Learn the lessons of 9/11 by funding Afghan militias and by alternately arming and killing Arabs. You have clearly learned from 9/11 you fucking retard. Shame on you all for voting for this prick.

    Blood is on your hands.

  2. digg = apple news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    9 out of 15 topics right now on the front page are apple related.

    Sorry, but the world does revolve around the ipod.

  3. parent is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    mods on crack again. put down the crackpipe and go run your ass on a treadmill.

  4. Hmmm.... by Cherita+Chen · · Score: 1, Troll
    Uh, is it just me? Did anyone happen to notice that we have a new /. editor kdawson, and that his background is pretty heavily littered with both technical and editorial writing?

    Did anyone notice that this story emphasized the greatness of the /. editorial model vs. the "digg.com" model, and was curiously posted by "Anonymous reader"?

    It may in fact just be the Ritalin talking, but I think our beloved /. Editors are getting their pokes in here and there...

    No big deal, just an paranoid/schizo observation

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