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Brad Stone’s piece on Digg provides a good comparison between automatic crowd based moderation promotion system at Digg and a more manual approach at SlashDot. But to me it misses a key flaw with both these systems. The issue is when users visit a destination site like SlashDot or Digg that is removed from the original community where the conversation is taking place, the conversation loses a lot of its context and become more and more like a game. This is really what is being manifested with all the digg gaming that has been going on where a lot of people digg a story without actually reading the contents.

What is really needed is a distributed model (kinda like hmmm… SezWho ) where the ratings and reputation stay within the context of the conversation rather than becoming a way to drive traffic to a different destination.