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> By prioritizing the content and votes cast by highly reputed users, as opposed to anonymous new arrivals whom no one knows or trusts, Caucus is better able to
by Smudge 11y ago
> By prioritizing the content and votes cast by highly reputed users, as opposed to anonymous new arrivals whom no one knows or trusts, Caucus is better able to figure out which content is most trustworthy.
How do you avoid the "Power User" effect that Digg (and arguably Reddit) ran into? If your most reputable users keep getting more and more reputable, eventually you have only a handful of very active users who have a majority of the voting power.
- sien 11y agoCap it. Don't display numbers. Once someone is useful and helps the community on a regular basis just leave it at that. Ironically Slashdot actually did this. Of course it had lots of other problems.
- jonlucc 11y agoThis was my first thought. The influence ought to follow a 4PL fit curve (not sure what the function is called). You're only trying to make sure the user is not terrible, you don't care once they've proven themselves worthy.
- whack 11y agoGreat observation. This is a core issue addressed by our reputation-system as well. All reputations are community-specific. Ie, your reputation-score on the politics community will have no impact on your posts/votes in other communities. This ensures that if anyone is ever dis-satisfied with the way the highly-reputed-users in a particular community are using/abusing their voting-power, they can simply create/migrate to a different community where those individuals will have no voting power at all. In the equilibrium, people will self-select into communities that match the tone/character that they are looking for.