NP self-organizing online discussion

[Doug Millison]

Self-Organizing Web Content Sites
The New York Times (NYT) has a good story on what it calls 
self-organizing sites, sites that automatically organize their 
content based on feedback from the user community. The archetype of 
this kind of self-organization is Slashdot, whose members get to 
moderate any post up or down based on the post's interest factor. 
What emerges organically out of this kind of moderation system is a 
site with content of interest to the community and mostly free of 
flames, spam, and noise. The article has a good non-technical 
overview of some of the moderation systems used by various sites.
NYT: <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/technology/18SELF.html> 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/technology/18SELF.html
Slashdot: <http://www.slashdot.org/> http://www.slashdot.org/

from:  Netsurfer Digest
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