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I find there's just in general a huge tragedy of the commons issue. Not just trolls but bad incentives in general One example is people actively mis-tagging th
by greggman 10y ago
I find there's just in general a huge tragedy of the commons issue. Not just trolls but bad incentives in general
One example is people actively mis-tagging things. Go on soundcloud.com, look at the charts. Pick Techno, notice at least 5 of the top 50 songs are not techno in any way shape or form. Instead the artists just wanted to try to get on any chart possible and so tagged with as many tags as they could dream up.
I've seen a similar thing on other sites.
I have no idea how to solve that. I suspect soundcloud is not interest in hiring people to police and some how negatively incentivising the behavior.
They aren't the only site that has this problem. Stack overflow solves it with their point system and above a certain level you can edit/change tags but it requires volunteers to do the editing and finding a way to incentivise those volunteers to do a good job. (and I know many people are not happy with those volunteer's judgments)