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I think it's a social phenomenon, not a technical one. Clay Shirky wrote the standard work on what happens when you try to fix social problems with technical ones: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

A better solution may be a new form of Erlang flood. Perhaps with some added technical incentive, say, a new list of users most hospitable to "classic" content.

That's a shit idea, but I'd much rather see PG work to better the community, than try throwing tech at it and watching the social forces mitigate his efforts.



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