This manual covers the design and development of web reputation systems, intended for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers. It delves into crucial aspects such as determining the quality of contributions, implementing models that encourage first-class contributions, and employing efficient moderation techniques to eliminate undesirable content. The manual also explores strategies for engaging contributors and rewarding their return, drawing on real-world case studies from platforms like Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay to illustrate effective approaches to managing large volumes of user-generated content.
The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensive guidance on building robust and scalable web reputation systems. It offers insights into handling overwhelming inflows of user contributions and fostering a positive environment for community interaction. This resource aims to equip professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to design, implement, and maintain effective reputation systems that enhance user experience and platform integrity.
What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Karma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.
Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they're critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It's a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.
- Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions
- Determine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others
- Become familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions
- Discover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently
- Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return
- Examine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay
Author: Farmer, Randy
Author: Glass, Bryce
Publisher: Yahoo Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Building Web Reputation Systems
Pages: 00336 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2010-03-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596159795
Category: COMPUTERS / Web / User-Generated Content
Category: Computers : Web - General
What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Karma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to manage and present user contributions most effectively. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.
Building Web Reputation Systems helps you ask the hard questions about these underlying mechanisms, and why they're critical for any organization that draws from or depends on user-generated content. It's a must-have for system architects, product managers, community support staff, and UI designers.
- Scale your reputation system to handle an overwhelming inflow of user contributions
- Determine the quality of contributions, and learn why some are more useful than others
- Become familiar with different models that encourage first-class contributions
- Discover tricks of moderation and how to stamp out the worst contributions quickly and efficiently
- Engage contributors and reward them in a way that gets them to return
- Examine a case study based on actual reputation deployments at industry-leading social sites, including Yahoo!, Flickr, and eBay
Author: Farmer, Randy
Author: Glass, Bryce
Publisher: Yahoo Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Building Web Reputation Systems
Pages: 00336 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2010-03-04
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596159795
Category: COMPUTERS / Web / User-Generated Content
Category: Computers : Web - General
