On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 04:47:48PM +0100, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
How the metrics are to be created is something that
has not been discussed
at all. It is clever that you already know that it will be possible to game
it.
David Gerard already mentioned gaming of metrics on en.wikipedia, which is a big problem.
However, simply consider:
Slashdot.
Which has long since succumbed to the eternal september (R.I.P.)
Kuro5hin was deliberately designed with less (gamable) metrics and thus lasted a while
longer.
One of our coolest editors -Ta Bu Shi Da Yu- is a sort of Kuro5hin refugee. (Don't
tell him I said
that :-P)
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