On 10/8/05, Lucas Gonze <lgonze@...> wrote:
> Anybody know details about how the craigslist flagging system works? Is
> it a vote-based design?
>
> I'm thinking about using this as a model for community moderation of
> unauthorized stuff on webjay.

yeah, seems to be vote-based, with a threshold for automatic removal / hiding-
http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/flags.html

shirky's had a few words to say on similar systems,
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_user.html

in a system like craig's, there might be potential for abuse - people
voting something off just coz they don't like it. how do you see
dealing with that?