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LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration

LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration

Posted Aug 25, 2011 11:03 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration by michaeljt
Parent article: LinuxCon: Clay Shirky on collaboration

> Sites could let you "import" karma from other sites they recognise. An expert in one area who abuses that to waste people's time as a "newby" elsewhere could be duly penalised at source.

Karma systems are a benchmark system, and like any benchmark they can be gamed and the more elaborate a benchmark is and the more fair it pretends to be, the easier it is to game and the trickier to detect.


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