Why not use #free as a filter with restrictions?
Give it its own tab. Deny it popular status. Include the necessary sort priorities. Watch out for "free shipping."
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bsalusa
asked a month ago
This will not work. Please google tragedy of the commons.
To spell out the reasons; if you restrict things according to a tag, people will stop using the tag, and if you attempt to say that they can't make it to popular, they will simply rewrite things so that it conforms, barely, to the new rules, and yet will still be the same old same old.
I know it sounds cynical, but I predict, with absolute confidence, that it won't work. Best thing is to not vote them up, and not post them yourself. Once people start getting burned by a few of these, it'll fall out of favor.
@shrdlu: I know that you have mentioned that before. This is the first time that I have read it. I flashed on "air pollution."
We still have tattle and if it isn't too much of a burden, staff can then tag the deal with free.
I hope that this runs its course and there are fewer listings in the future. I liked popular when it was a list of better deals. Now it is boring.
@bsalusa: Actually, this is an important enough point that I'm just posting the wikipedia link to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
You said you'd read it this time. What did you think?
@shrdlu: I have been thinking about many of the situations mentioned in the article. Long ago I made a statement that the planet is indifferent to our existence. Now I see that someone wrote about the concept. I am approaching my three score and ten. I probably will not live to see many of the outcomes that I realize are most likely in the future.
Are there solutions? Probably only in the short term. As the world's population grows more and more, people will learn that the most critical resource is water, then comes food and shelter. The collective will have to agree on solutions or the strongest will take the most.
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