Don't treat users like their contributions are equal. Some users make better decisions than others. Reward them.
I think the Slashdot FAQ should be required reading before developing a comment system. There are a lot of lessons they learned ahead of the rest of the internet, problems others still have not solved. Something history, doomed to repeat.
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Reinvent Slashdot's meta-moderation. http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml
Don't treat users like their contributions are equal. Some users make better decisions than others. Reward them.
I think the Slashdot FAQ should be required reading before developing a comment system. There are a lot of lessons they learned ahead of the rest of the internet, problems others still have not solved. Something history, doomed to repeat.
http://slashdot.org/faq/
Thanks.
Community moderation is quite a nice concept. Slashdot has indeed implemented it quite intelligently.