On 10/9/05, Lucas Gonze <lgonze@...> wrote:
> Lucas Gonze wrote:
>
> > Another big problem is that most people don't have the background
> > knowledge to be able to evaluate links. General understanding of the
> > copyright system is really low, which is reasonable because it's such
> > a baroque thing but bad because it is important. On the other hand,
> > it may be that most long-time webjayists will have that knowledge.
>
> It strikes me that the webjay premise is that every user either has or
> is able to learn the distinction between authorized and unauthorized, so
> low general understanding is a moot point.

yes, though distinctions may be subjective for some. when a user
flags a track, what if you asked them for a comment? that little bit
of text could help the playlist owner learn why their track was
flagged. maybe you could encourage flaggers to include a URL, to an
online store page showing it's commercial, for one.

one the other hand, if you're gonna let users vote a track off, would
it be fair to let users vote it back on? if symmetry's desired in a
system like this (i'd vote for that), you could allow others to come
along and vote the track back on, leaving comments w/URLs pointing to
the band's home page where the track is distributed for free, for
example.