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Reputation-based group moderation results in popular opinions existing and unpopular opinions being crushed out of view. See: Reddit 'hive mind' phenomenon. Al
by 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 agoAnd 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 agoThe 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'.