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The death of self-rule on the internet @ eBay
- cstejerean 19y agoThe title sounded pretty scary but the message is pretty simple: sellers can no longer leave negative feedback against buyers. This is an attempt by Ebay to allow buyers to leave more honest feedback without fearing retaliation. I think this makes Ebay even more democratic.
- cawel 19y agoMore democratic? I'd say so, even if, ironically, this meant more top-bottom control. But I guess that was needed: "Now, we realize that feedback has been a two-way street, but our data shows a disturbing trend, which is that sellers leave retaliatory feedback eight times more frequently than buyers do ... and this figure is up dramatically from only a few years ago." Bill Cobb from eBay (source: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200801290559182.html http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200801290559182.html) I originally took the link from Nicholas Carr's blog: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/crowd_control.php http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/02/crowd_control.php
- ntoshev 19y agoThe social balance involved in such ecosystems can be very fragile. I have no idea if this will work. And how can ebay know, unless they test it before full-scale deployment? One option would be to apply it to new sellers at first and see how it goes.