Comments on: Understanding How Social Networks Get Gamed http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:17:06 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: 5 Reasons Why BumpZee Will Be The Next Digg, But Even Bigger | JimKukral.com http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-17578 5 Reasons Why BumpZee Will Be The Next Digg, But Even Bigger | JimKukral.com Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:12:08 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-17578 [...] #4 Reason BumpZee Is Better Than Digg BumpZee is new, so it’s not gamed, Digg is (documented). In BumpZee, the community polices itself. How? Users can not only bump entries they think are worthwhile, they are encouraged to dump ones that are not. [...] [...] #4 Reason BumpZee Is Better Than Digg BumpZee is new, so it’s not gamed, Digg is (documented). In BumpZee, the community polices itself. How? Users can not only bump entries they think are worthwhile, they are encouraged to dump ones that are not. [...]

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]]> By: kelvin newman http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-7468 kelvin newman Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:05:37 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-7468 Gotta love the use of maths. It's difficult for MBL the fact it works so simply is what made it appeal to me, but thats the very same problem that makes it so easy to game. The spamming of MBL and tech crunch here http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/01/10/free-advertising-on-techcrunch-with-mybloglog-flaw/ is another dilema for them... Gotta love the use of maths. It’s difficult for MBL the fact it works so simply is what made it appeal to me, but thats the very same problem that makes it so easy to game.

The spamming of MBL and tech crunch here http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2007/01/10/free-advertising-on-techcrunch-with-mybloglog-flaw/ is another dilema for them…

]]> By: Jordan Mitchell http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-6348 Jordan Mitchell Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:35:19 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-6348 Brilliant work, Doc. Self-promotion is the hideous underbelly of most of the Web 2day (like how I mixed 2.0 and today?). The users within any community that actual "game" are of course less than 1%. I believe one could apply the concept of participation inequality, and surmise that 1% of any popular community actually contributes to the community and 1% of THAT group "games" it. The key question here is: do you make gaming a feature or do you fight it? When a minute fraction of your user base games your site, it's bad (Digg, MBL, ...) but when most of your users game the system it's hugely positive (MySpace). As for your formula then, I think the whole thing needs to be multiplied by a factor of some sort that represents the extent to which gaming is built into the system in the first place. Brilliant work, Doc.

Self-promotion is the hideous underbelly of most of the Web 2day (like how I mixed 2.0 and today?). The users within any community that actual “game” are of course less than 1%. I believe one could apply the concept of participation inequality, and surmise that 1% of any popular community actually contributes to the community and 1% of THAT group “games” it.

The key question here is: do you make gaming a feature or do you fight it? When a minute fraction of your user base games your site, it’s bad (Digg, MBL, …) but when most of your users game the system it’s hugely positive (MySpace).

As for your formula then, I think the whole thing needs to be multiplied by a factor of some sort that represents the extent to which gaming is built into the system in the first place.

]]> By: HART (1-800-HART) http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-6309 HART (1-800-HART) Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:28:18 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-6309 Wooooooooooooooosh ... over my head! But, I do like to see new faces in my sidebar. I've been adding myself to their own communities to everybody that has surfed my pages. This way, I know they have been to my site! If people ask me to be their contact, I always immediately ask to be theirs. For some reason, I don't feel the greed to collect MyBlogLog contacts as I will be trying to with MySpace Friends. Wooooooooooooooosh … over my head! But, I do like to see new faces in my sidebar. I’ve been adding myself to their own communities to everybody that has surfed my pages. This way, I know they have been to my site! If people ask me to be their contact, I always immediately ask to be theirs. For some reason, I don’t feel the greed to collect MyBlogLog contacts as I will be trying to with MySpace Friends.

]]> By: engtech http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-6306 engtech Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:58:53 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-6306 I like how you managed to work "T 'n A" into your formula. :) I like how you managed to work “T ‘n A” into your formula. :)

]]> By: Leonard http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/comment-page-1/#comment-6301 Leonard Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:11:05 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/01/04/understanding-how-social-networks-get-gamed/#comment-6301 Certainly a very insightful post. Sometimes I really wonder if you're a doctor and I don't mean it in a bad way. Certainly a very insightful post. Sometimes I really wonder if you’re a doctor and I don’t mean it in a bad way.

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