Hi, If one is not concerned about making money though paid advertising, would it make sense to have free advertising as a way to discourage spam in the core content?
For example, in del.icio.us, when posting a bookmark, you could designate it as advertising. This means it would appear in a designated advertising section alongside normal content. To encourage people to do this, you could have it so that obvious advertising that is not designated as such could be marked as spam by del.icio.us users and hidden entirely from all users. And so, spammers would be encouraged to do the right thing. Of course, there will be competition for the advertising section. One could have it so that ads would be displayed more prominently if the people who submitted them have been generally helpful by contributing useful core content (e.g., in a CollaborativeRank sense). In this way, prominently displayed ads are a reward for helpful contributions to the core content. Amir _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@del.icio.us http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
