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Mob-Sourcing — the Prejudice of Crowds

Posted by Soulskill on from the familiar-territory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet takes a look at how crowd-moderation can capture and reflect the prejudice of individuals. 'As more web content is crowd-sourced and crowd-moderated, are we seeing only the wisdom of crowds? No, we're also seeing their prejudice. The Internet reflects both the good and ugly in human nature. ... Any system relying on people implicitly encodes prejudices as well. In a world where one politician with a call girl is forced to resign and another is handily reelected, there is no hope for moral or intellectual consistency in crowd-sourced or moderated content.'"

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  1. Regarding Hookers, etc. by jcr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't have an issue with Bill Clinton banging the fat chick, or Elliot Spitzer cheating on his wife with a hooker, or Fluffy the Trial Lawyer knocking up some over-the-hill political groupie. That's between them and their wives, as far as I'm concerned. What I do have an issue with, is Bill Clinton lying under oath, Elliot Spitzer having prosecuted other people for the same thing he was doing himself, and Fluffy spending campaign money on covering up his sordid tryst.

    -jcr

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  2. Re:Clearly by Phopojijo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But... that's... tangential politics...

  3. Re:regarding the reply to my signature by EasyTarget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Naa; they've just worked out that giving money to the RIIA is a stoopid thing to do no matter what their fanbois say. They'll get more original music, featuring more talent, for less, by shopping elsewhere.

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    "Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers." - Hobbes