from The Evolving Design of OPEN Social Sharing Networks: Bookmooch, Magnatune, and the Future of Shared Passions, a terrific talk at Baychi by John Buckman. He posits that behavior can be managed via full transparency. "I know where you live."
From the brilliant blog.pmarca.com
I have removed all comments. I just don't have time to provide the level of moderation needed to ensure a respectful and relevant conversation.
And why should he have to? Why not use reputation and flagging to allow the community to moderate itself? I hate to see yet another example of "conversational media" go broadcast only just because we have immature tools. Time to switch to PublicSquare