Risto_Saarelma comments on Money: The Unit of Caring - Less Wrong

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Comment author: garaman 03 December 2011 06:01:00PM 4 points [-]

" we could write an algorithm that gives stuff and people get expert cred when they are upvoted by the established experts"

Sounds like StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com)

It is a domain-specific community (everything about software development), in the form of questions and answers. Reputation is earned by upvotes from other community members. Naturally, the established experts emerge as high-reputation members, being those with a long history of giving good answers.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 04 December 2011 08:04:04AM 1 point [-]

Stack Overflow and other forums dedicated to a specific topic don't have quite the same populism problem as general interest forums do.