Incentives, Subjectivity and "The Wisdom of Crowds"

"Incentives can even be built into systems through rewards for positive contributions as well as punishing negative ones. There are several examples of this already in practice: Amazon and eBay feedback systems, Digg and Reddit ranking systems, and so on.

"Abuse is one of the biggest problems open source sites face. If someone can interact with a site and be completely anonymous, there is a higher chance that people will be destructive, than in a case where one’s identity is public knowledge...

"(W)here there is subjectivity with regards to the content, Wikipedia fails as a tool for content management to harness the wisdom of the crowd." /newassignment.net/