I mused about people-powered topic classification for blogs after playing with the Google Image Labeller the other week. It seems like a doable feature for Technorati because the incentives to game topic classification are low.
That same week, Rafe posed a question about community driven spam classification:
Why couldn't Blogger or Six Apart or a firm like Technorati add all of the new blogs they register to a queue to be examined using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service? I'd love to see someone at least do an experiment in this vein. The only catch is that you'd want to have each blog checked more than once to prevent spiteful reviewers from disqualifying blogs that they didn't agree with.The catch indeed is that the incentive is high for a system like this to be gamed. Shortly after blogger implemented their flag, spammers
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"Bloggerbowling" - the practice of having robots flag multiple random blogs as splogs regardless of content to degrade the accuracy of the policing service.As previously cited from Cory, all complex ecosystems have parasites. So I've been thinking about what it would take to do this effectively, what would it take overcome the blogosphere's parasites bloggerbowling efforts? The things that come to mind for any system of community policing are about rewards and obstacles. For example
At the end of the day, I don't have the answers. But I think Rafe, Doc and so many others concerned with splog proliferation are asking great questions. Technorati is currently keeping a tremendous volume of spam out of its search results but, at the end of the day, there's still much to do. And this post is the end of my day, today.
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