A lot of this article's advice refers to Reddit as a singular entity, as if Reddit The Company was behind the online investigation: For example, in a situation

A lot of this article's advice refers to Reddit as a singular entity, as if Reddit The Company was behind the online investigation: For example, in a situation similar to the marathon bombings, Reddit could simply post the available images without comment (save, perhaps, for time stamps and where the pictures were taken), and allow users to sift through them, looking for both incriminatory and exculpatory evidence (like, say, people carrying black backpacks near the bomb sites, or still carrying them once the bombs had already gone off), while creating a voting system that would let people independently vote on which images they thought were worth further investigation. Once a critical mass of users had perused the images, Reddit could aggregate the results, and pass them on to the authorities. (The results of the voting wouldn’t even have to be made public, if people were concerned about false accusations.) This would take advantage of the crowd’s ability to filter through lots of images quickly, while also preserving the diversity and independence that make crowds smart. The point of this wouldn’t be to compete with, let alone replace, the work of official investigators, but rather to provide, as it were, another set of eyes, one that might see something that investigators missed. If Reddit were looking for a model to follow, it could use NASA’s Clickworkers experiment... For any of this to work, "Reddit" would need to be an organization with a top-down command and control hierarchy, not an online forum where any user can create a new subforum at any time. In this idealized world of Reddit investigations, who is overseeing the crowd-sourcing and handling the aggregation?