(2007-01-31) Shirky Delay Reputation System

Clay Shirky argues that a new Social Software service should not start out with a Reputation Management system, because you'll just get it wrong. Better to take an Iterative approach, and design in reaction to actual Gaming The System problems. To take advantage of this designable moment, I believe that what Community Patent needs, at launch, is only this: Meta Data, instrumentation, and attention... it will be far better to invest in smart people watching the social aspects of the system at launch than in smart algorithms guiding those aspects.