https://blog.learnlets.com/2021/07/a-new-common-tragedy/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.learnlets.com/2021/07/a-new-common-tragedy/#comment-1126068 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:13:12 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=8007#comment-1126068 s no shortage of reviews and comments on Amazon, Kindle, TripAdvisor, and Reddit. TripAdvisor has gamified its approach, encouraging people to contribute to win badges and recognition. StackOverflow has tons of contribution from people who get their kicks from helping others (and also get public recognition). Maybe Yelp is just losing out to other sites?]]> I wonder if it is less the principle and more the platform that is losing traction? There’s no shortage of reviews and comments on Amazon, Kindle, TripAdvisor, and Reddit. TripAdvisor has gamified its approach, encouraging people to contribute to win badges and recognition. StackOverflow has tons of contribution from people who get their kicks from helping others (and also get public recognition). Maybe Yelp is just losing out to other sites?

]]> https://blog.learnlets.com/2021/07/a-new-common-tragedy/#comment-1126066 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:07:19 +0000 https://blog.learnlets.com/?p=8007#comment-1126066 Never did get into Yelp. Seemed too limited in scope and function. I don’t consult it, or contribute to it.
Maybe a better case study is Amazon reviews.
There are likely exponentially more items reviewed, and that many more reviewers as well.
It is quite close to an international Commons, and is definitely an American Commons of information.
There are many examples of the tragedy of the Commons there. The most common is fake reviews, likely instigated by sellers. It seems that Amazon has some way of sifting those out, but still there are some fake pumping reviews.
That said, Amazon rankings are about as good as you can get for free information.

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