On Nov 28, 2005, at 7:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
I've got more of a "let's see what they do" rather than planning for
this. There's some anti-spam stuff in already to deal with the usual
behaviors, though.
Joshua
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