Guess who just became the first entry in my "ignore" list. It does bring up an important issue, though -- who is to say what constitutes "good" or "bad" tagging behavior. It's relatively easy when he's a blatant jackass like Patrick Ryan and publicizes his commercial use; but I'm sure there are plenty of guerilla marketing weasels out there who have been doing similar things ever since the service started.
Individual users filtering out bad actors is not difficult; but does not address the underlying manipulation/distortion of the data for applications like a recommendation or ranking engine (like cloudalicious). Seems very similar to problems that Google has with SEOs trying to game the PageRank system. I'd be curious whether you (Josh) could share some of your thoughts on how del.icio.us will cope with this as the service matures? Thanks! geoff > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Villarosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [delicious-discuss] Entrepreneur Launches Web's First Tag > Directory to Raise Money for His Wedding > > Joshua, > > Isn't this effectively just some guy spamming delicious with bought content? > Surely this violates some part of your TOS? It's funny for like 5 seconds, > but I'd boot him if I were you. In fact although evil, that'd be awesome. > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of joshua schachter > Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [delicious-discuss] Entrepreneur Launches Web's First Tag Directory > to Raise Money for His Wedding > > http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb315863.htm > > The mind boggles. > > -- > joshua schachter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://del.icio.us/joshua > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
