Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Participation as Social Capital: The Fundamental Flaw of Social News Sites
►http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/05/30/ParticipationAsSocialCapitalTheFundamentalFlawOfSocialNewsSites.aspx
When you build a system where you get points for the number of people who agree with you, you are building a popularity contest for ideas. However, your popularity contest for ideas will not be dominated by the people with the best ideas, but the people w
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