On 3/18/06, Ray King raymondking@gmail.com wrote:
On gaming: No matter what we do, the system will be gameable, but if the rewards for doing so aren't too high (which in this case I don't think they are) and we monitor the system, we can likely stay ahead of the gamers. In the end, giving people the ability to quickly and easily see what other contributions an author has made gives the reader the chance to decide how credible the author is.
What are the rewards? Equivocating vandalism? Ie: That's probably not vandalism, he has a rating of 80%! Possibly facilitating the road to adminship? Just brainstorming here.
Gaming could take the form of adding a paragraph of text to several different articles on a similar theme, rewording paragraphs meaninglessly, expanding what had been a concise definition to something fluffier.
Well, it doesn't sound too bad, I have to say. Bring it on.
Steve