RSS for Tags: transparency + trust-
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Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. The author created a low-quality story and hired a Digg-gaming service called User/Submitter to buy votes. Digg's system works only so long as the crowds on Digg can be trusted. Whether they can be trusted in the long term remains to be seen, given the incentives built into the system for voting on the most popular stories. -
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This article is filled with stories of people cheating reputation rating systems to earn trust. It also describes Paul Resnick's research on the role of online rating systems in building trust. Resnick seems to argue for a structural approach to curbing the cheating - create powerful algorithms to force people to be trustworthy. -
2voteA follow up article about the disgraced Wikipedia administrator named Essjay. He presented himself as a tenured professor when he was really a 20 something with a BA. His contributions to the Wikipedia community were of high quality & he was very well regarded. He said he was just trying to protect his identity, but people feel betrayed b/c they based their trust initially on his credentials.
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Essjay was a trusted, credible Wikipedia editor/contributor, but it turns out that he fabricated his identity. He's not really a tenured professor but a 24 year-old who has never taught a class before. This raises questions of identity, credibility, transparency on open source collaborations such as Wikipedia.
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