I think the thing to try is to have a few 'uber-webjays' - people who
have been members for awhile. Being a flagger could even be by
invitation only. Anything that makes it more confusing for a user,
whether its a playlister or a listener, is bad. Most of the unauthorized
tracks that I've seen tend to be from the myspace crowd (no offense,
it's just a convenient way to refer to them), and there are 'kids' out
there who don't understand (or don't want to understand) what's
authorized and what isn't.

Any kind of voting off of a song is a bad idea. There has to be a system
where the songs are reviewed by someone or a group of someones,
otherwise you'll have webjay flame wars.

There have been a few times when I saw tracks that were not supposed to
be there and I just emailed the 'sitemom'. Although it's not a long-term
solution, I think it would be an interesting experiment - having
'site-siblings' who would contact mom if they saw unauthorized tracks.

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> Metamoderation? Abusers get kicked off webjay?
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> Also, you could, if a song gets voted against n times, inform the
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>>>yeah, seems to be vote-based, with a threshold for automatic removal /
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>>>http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/flags.html
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>>>shirky's had a few words to say on similar systems,
>>>http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_user.html
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>>>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?
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>>I honestly don't know, and I can see it being used for flogging rather
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>>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.
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>>What about not revealing the 'flag' button unless the person has been
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