...to make sure that nothing "untoward" is posted? Isn't the potential for abuse very high, here? The implications seem somewhat staggering when you think it through aren't they?

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Hi Max,

That's a good question, and we've got some ideas on dealing with abuse.

One option is to implement a moderation system, where a group of moderators have the ability to delete/remove untoward postings. Or we could take a more stringent approach and require someone to have their posting approved by a moderator before it actually appears. Anyway, it would work in a very similar fashion to how moderation works on a Network54 forum. We can even take that a step further and have group moderators based on location - i.e. if you were in a "Los Angeles Moderators Group" you could only edit/remove/approve posts that appear in the LA area.

Another option is a scoring system, where all registered users can score posts, and based on the score a posting may or may not appear (or may only appear if someone actually wants to see a post with a negative score). It would also be very similar to the Network54 scoring system we have in place, except this time when a post reached a certain threshold (i.e. received 10 low scores) it would be removed, or would appear last in the list of results.

Required registration is another option - although it would be nice to keep the system as open as possible. We could do something with the scoring system such that a registered user's post would automatically get a default (higher) score.

A combination of these types of systems should work well - we just haven't gotten to that point yet since Wayki is a very new service and is evolving on a week by week basis.

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...that the first level of moderation would be the account holder, just like an N54 forum. A second level of security or appeal moderation would be as you suggest-- among a network of Wayki people who are honest or employed by Wayki itself. I think N54 has a complaint button in each forum so people can report abuse. My new thought on this, though, is that that first level of moderation could be by me.

If I moderated my own piano teacher "wayki map", I would be ecstatic. Well-- at least happy. Maybe ecstatic is going too far. I use N54 forums a lot and I like to get responses from others (ie. input from Wayki visitors on piano teachers in different areas) but I like to retain final judgement as to whether I approve it or not. In effect, it would be Max's Piano Teacher Maps. I could get excited about that. Others would be invited to participate but if someone thought they could do better, they could do their own piano teacher map.

Just my 3 cents.