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Originally Posted by Penforhire
The abundance factor makes some sort of on-line reputation scheme more necessary. I always like to point to Doctorow's "wuffie" but that's just so I can say wuffie, lol. In order to rise above the noise in an abundance economy we have to use some sort of crowd-weighted measure of goodness.
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A measure of goodness, yes, but I'm not sure crowd-weighted is the answer. Crowd-weighted just means the most popular material will be uplifted, whatever its quality, and lesser-known but excellent material will be buried. Any system needs to be more sophisticated than that.