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What is This Book About? [Building Web Reputation Systems] Preface What is This Book About?

Today's Web is the product of over a billion hands and minds. Around the clock and around the globe, a world full of people are pumping out contributions small and large: full-length features on Vimeo; video shorts on YouTube; comments on Blogger; discussions on Yahoo! Groups; and tagged-and-titled Del.icio.us bookmarks. Wiki_Preface [Building Web Reputation Systems] Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions Quickly determine the quality of contributions, and why some are more useful than others Become familiar with different models that help you encourage first-class contributions Discover tricks of moderation, and how to stamp out the worst contributions in a quick and efficient way Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return “I like the scope of the book.

It provides a lot of new material about a field that is struggling to leap from black art to science, and it provides a lot of useful anecdotal evidence to illustrate the counter-intuitive traps.” –Douglas Crockford, Senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! About the authors: F. Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog.