> On Dec 9, 2017, at 12:55 PM, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> How do we know which comments are worthwhile? that's the curation and
> authority problem.
The internet forum "Plastic" used a system of karma points. (I think Slashdot did something similar but I never read it.) Plastic was a general reposting of news and the like. If you made comments found to be good by those with karma points, you were given some points. You could then rate posts. If I remember correctly, it cost one point to up-rate a post and two points to downrate a post. I think maybe you lost points if you didn’t rate posts so you couldn’t horde your karma.
(As a psychologist, Don might be able to give us insight into why people would horde something that is only of value if it’s used but the phenomenon is common with political power on many different levels.)
A reader could then set limits—I only want to see posts with a rating of three or above. That would mean they wouldn’t see anything that was two, one, or negative one.
Gunnar
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