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If it's on the web, spam will always be a possibility. I don't see people getting discouraged from creating networks due to spam. Any quarter-decent social appl
by danielha 20y ago
If it's on the web, spam will always be a possibility. I don't see people getting discouraged from creating networks due to spam. Any quarter-decent social application will have some measures for dealing with it.
Most social applications aren't aiming for the PageRank either. Their use is grown through word of mouth approaches, not organic search. What aspect of PageRank is doing this discouraging of social apps?
- amichail 20y agoI don't think it's obvious at all that you can control spam in a social app such as wikipedia or social bookmarking. You need to try it out and see what happens.
- amichail 20y agoBTW, this paper about wikipedia is fascinating: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf See in particular the sections on "Vandalism and repair" and "Statistical corroboration".
- amichail 20y agoThe problem is that PageRank puts you in a mindset of creating sophisticated algorithms that are much more resistant to spam than naive approaches. In that sense, it discourages people from even trying out social apps.
- immad 20y agoI don't see many people being discouraged to make social apps. A lot of the internet is based on social interaction (forums, comments, reviews, chats..) and wherever there is spam there are anti spam-measure in place that work reasonably well since these apps are all pretty usable. Maybe I just don't get what you mean