Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need...
by esyir on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:43PM
(#28004200)
I've always had this idea that reputation systems and enforced, systematic gatekeeping might be a way to build stronger communities.
The fundamental issue of any fully open community is scale. From what I've seen, no online community really resists the swarm that comes when it goes viral. Whatever community that was there before, for all it's values and culture, gets replaced by the masses by sheer virtue of numbers.
Re:Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Need...
by bena on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:36PM
(#28019603)
Reputation systems can be gamed. On massive sites, they reward those with the most time.
Gatekeeping (or moderation) works, but like we've both already said, it only works for smaller scales.
Moderation itself is an attempt at a solution. And it is a solution on a small enough scale. But when you're literally dealing with moderating the entire world 24/7, there just aren't the resources to deal with that.
You're attempting to automate that or kick that can back to the users. But just like here, just like reddit, just like StackOverflow, just like every single site that relies on community moderation that gets big, time beats all.
It'll be fine for a while and you'll think you've solved the issue, but then you'll tip and become larger than you can socially manage. And those with the most time will skew your samples and votes.