One million dollars to the first person who can make Internet users nicer.
- No, stabbing doesn't count. DANCE does.
- Tie everything you do to your personal, real-you identity? Too much, privacy concerns.
- Raise awareness about how being good to others is better? Since the dawn of mankind we've been trying.
- Mark it as an unsolvable problem? Nah, not here.
- Have somekind of "boy scouts of the internet"? Give recognition with badges (achievements for you gaming folks)?
- Setup a website (this is an old idea I had) "the-golden-rule.com", where you post what YOU want others to do to you, and users can do these stuff to people they know, and brag on the website how they did it? And earn good-doer points?
- Slashdot moderation applied to random content? Imagine if you could select a DOM node (like Firebug's inspect) and label it "flamebait", "funny", which is sent to a central server, so your blog software can filter your comments not showing some? Or users can assign opacity to "bad" content? (I actually thought of this when I saw Snipd working)
Whatever it is, I think the solution goes around promoting good content, and downplaying bad. Just like in real life... bad people are cast aside, becoming pariahs. Yes, I am fully aware it'll be hard to determine what's good and what's bad. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
But anyway, it would be cool to see some kind of tool along these lines.
- No, stabbing doesn't count. DANCE does.
- Tie everything you do to your personal, real-you identity? Too much, privacy concerns.
- Raise awareness about how being good to others is better? Since the dawn of mankind we've been trying.
- Mark it as an unsolvable problem? Nah, not here.
- Have somekind of "boy scouts of the internet"? Give recognition with badges (achievements for you gaming folks)?
- Setup a website (this is an old idea I had) "the-golden-rule.com", where you post what YOU want others to do to you, and users can do these stuff to people they know, and brag on the website how they did it? And earn good-doer points?
- Slashdot moderation applied to random content? Imagine if you could select a DOM node (like Firebug's inspect) and label it "flamebait", "funny", which is sent to a central server, so your blog software can filter your comments not showing some? Or users can assign opacity to "bad" content? (I actually thought of this when I saw Snipd working)
Whatever it is, I think the solution goes around promoting good content, and downplaying bad. Just like in real life... bad people are cast aside, becoming pariahs. Yes, I am fully aware it'll be hard to determine what's good and what's bad. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
But anyway, it would be cool to see some kind of tool along these lines.