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The mystery of the online community

Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

11 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/

John C. Dvorak is on the case in PC Magazine, wondering if there’s a hard and fast way to prevent the “fakes and vandals” from ruining online communities. Other systems such as Metafilter are also information-driven, but users generally need to be paid members in order to post. This is an excellent filtering mechanism, to say [...]

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