Comments on: When Did Delicious Start ‘Silent Bans’?

By: mona lee

mona lee — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:23:42 +0000

Hmmm i totally agree with Nick he explained every thing very beautifully and the point which is HURT YOUR BUSINESS MODEL is very wright …..

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:27:07 +0000

This is a good feature only when it works for it's intended use. If you silent ban users that want to submit good quality information than your system has a serious flaw which can inadvertently hurt your business model.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:52:38 +0000

Paul I can assure you there is more to "social media" then 34k pageview blasts from the homepage of 4 different websites on the Internet.

If you really do feel it is a suckers game then carry on

By: Nicola D'Agostino

Nicola D'Agostino — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:42:42 +0000

It's a well known Del.icio.us tactic.
In a talk in 2006 Joshua Schachter said: "When you’ve figured out someone is spamming, don’t let them know – let them keep posting and just silently junk their stuff."

nda

By: paul_houle

paul_houle — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:50:29 +0000

Social sites have a lifecycle. Early on the problem is to get people to participate — later on the problems are to (i) control operating costs and (ii) prevent burnout.

(a) Blight is one mode of burnout. Another one is that (b) the cost of become an active participant of the site becomes too high to attract new participants, and another is that (c) a site develops an editorial voice that "turns off" potential new readers. Digg is struggling with both (b) and (c), while Reddit is struggling with (c).

You can talk about fairness until you're blue in the face, but the fact is that MrBabyMan needs Digg more than Digg needs him. There are hundreds, no thousands, of people who can do what MrBabyMan does, but only one site that can deliver the audience that Digg can. MrBabyMan is free to move to Reddit or Mixx, but it's going to be a big step down.

Although we're all seduced by the big traffic pulses that we can from social media, there's some truth in Aaron Wall's characterization of social media as a sucker's game — so long as they are running a free service, you can't expect it to be fair.