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kleinbl00  ·  2910 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Overenthusiastic tagging of #spam in #rpg

1) It's not an experiment, it's a goal.

2) It cannot be allowed to fail. If it isn't working at the moment, methods need to be changed so that it does work.

Communities are governed either top-down or bottom-up. Top-down is the most obvious because it's a hierarchy that humans have ascribed to since, like, fire. The problem with top-down hierarchies is that the community size and behavior is limited by governance. Good governance, good community. Bad governance, bad community. Which means if you want a good community you need the incentives necessary to attract governance - prestige, money, fulfillment, etc. Which, really, means money. Reddit worked up to a point - small community, active involvement from people with a vested interest in its success, etc. Eventually the number of people that didn't add outnumbered the people who did, and the only people interested in governance left are either (A) young and inexperienced or (B) power-hungry. Facebook works because their moderators are paid.

So Hubski either needs to pay people to keep the content pure, or it needs to refine an architecture such that it NEVER requires moderation. Switching from self-moderated (bottom up) to designated-moderated (top-down) will kill the community. Not immediately, but inevitably.