Acadia opened this issue on Jan 04, 2008 ยท 42 posts
Joe@HFG posted Sat, 12 January 2008 at 12:52 PM
Any system is going to get gamed. I've caught people on Digg who worked for Microsoft burying comments from ANYONE criticizing Windows Vista. It was an epidemic right around the time of the launch. That didn't do a thing to stop the 40% uninstall rate, but it sure made them look bad for trying to cover up the truth.
Every political candidate has group dedicated to spinning their results on social networking sites.
If you can use the social networking to police 80% of your population democratically, that's only 20% you need to chase down for abuse.
No system is perfect, but you can make it better. And letting everyone decide makes it more fair than letting a select few do it.
This of course is all up to the ShareCG admins. If they want this little venture to go on, this is an idea to do it. If it's too much work... it's up to the next people who try this.
mo·nop·o·ly [muh-nop-uh-lee]
noun, plural mo·nop·o·lies.
1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market,
or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices