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That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it, HN does it. Of course it breaks down if people get another SIM card but

That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it, HN does it. Of course it breaks down if people get another SIM card but otherwise the degenerates could be squashed down pretty quickly. I actually think the idea as potential. But like all things in life it's about execution.

danudey 12y ago
Reputation-based group moderation results in popular opinions existing and unpopular opinions being crushed out of view. See: Reddit 'hive mind' phenomenon. Also, if you're talking about users gaining reputation, it doesn't really make a difference in HN/Reddit (I never look at someone's karma), and if you add in a system like StackOverflow's, it becomes an awful grindy treadmill of groupthink.
- clavalle 12y ago
  And that is when group moderation 'works'. It is not clear that it would in YikYak's case. For both Reddit and HN, people have a bit more stake in their identities than yakkers.
  - danudey 12y ago
    The other problem with user-visible 'reputation' is that it becomes a point of identification. If one user gets a larger amount of points than other users, they become immediately recognizable as 'the guy with 10000 internet points' or 'the guy in the 3200s'.
fragmede 12y ago
> That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it... ...very poorly. Currently the first post is a picture of renowned astrophysicist, Professor Neil Degrasse Tyson. The 2nd top comment, with 1604 points, derides him as 'Black Science Man'. ("it's just a joke", yeah, uh huh.) Unless you actively take steps to hide it, after pictures of cats, Reddit is a wretched hive of racism worse than Stormfront. What Reddit proves, if anything, that (its implementation of) reputation based group moderation does not work.

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That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it, HN does it. Of course it breaks down if people get another SIM card but

by ghettoCoder 12y ago

danudey 12y ago
Reputation-based group moderation results in popular opinions existing and unpopular opinions being crushed out of view. See: Reddit 'hive mind' phenomenon. Also, if you're talking about users gaining reputation, it doesn't really make a difference in HN/Reddit (I never look at someone's karma), and if you add in a system like StackOverflow's, it becomes an awful grindy treadmill of groupthink.
- clavalle 12y ago
  And that is when group moderation 'works'. It is not clear that it would in YikYak's case. For both Reddit and HN, people have a bit more stake in their identities than yakkers.
  - danudey 12y ago
    The other problem with user-visible 'reputation' is that it becomes a point of identification. If one user gets a larger amount of points than other users, they become immediately recognizable as 'the guy with 10000 internet points' or 'the guy in the 3200s'.
fragmede 12y ago
> That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it... ...very poorly. Currently the first post is a picture of renowned astrophysicist, Professor Neil Degrasse Tyson. The 2nd top comment, with 1604 points, derides him as 'Black Science Man'. ("it's just a joke", yeah, uh huh.) Unless you actively take steps to hide it, after pictures of cats, Reddit is a wretched hive of racism worse than Stormfront. What Reddit proves, if anything, that (its implementation of) reputation based group moderation does not work.