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Editorial deletions

Posted Apr 10, 2010 15:04 UTC (Sat) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Editorial deletions by nix
Parent article: Ubuntu switches search back to Google

See Slashdot for an example of how reputation systems tend to promote groupthink and uninformed speculation. (That said, without moderation the comments would surely be even worse.)

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Editorial deletions

Posted Apr 11, 2010 9:28 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

I'm not quite sure that Slashdot's system is the best. There's a vast diversity in moderation systems, and not all of them necessarily seem to promote groupthink. Reddit's, for example, seems to function much better than Slashdot's.