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Originally Posted by Giggleton
There are methods to contain the actions of fringe groups bent on removing all references to a certain subject, such as send messages to all interested parties asking whether or not they wish the content to remain on the site, the number of votes for the content or against would surely increase and the action to take would be more inline to the wishes of the site's population.
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How do you determine who the interested parties are?
For example, let's not even go into politics or religion here, but deal simply with terrible books. There are some hideous abominations out there which have multiple 5-star reviews, sometimes from the author's family and friends, sometimes from his or her dedicated fans (in the latter case, tirades from the author, while not mandatory, add a certain cachet). If you have the author and five people who know them IRL posting glowing reviews for a book, and one person posting an honest warning about its similarity to a black hole, who are the "interested parties" in this case? Who gets a vote on whether that review is allowed to remain? Should the rest of the people who use that website but haven't actually read the book in question get a vote? How do you tell which ones
have read the book, anyway? If Abe bought it for Betty, which of the two of them gets to post a review?