A letter from the Social Search frontier: Good news, Bad news

social search, search, small world, mobilisation, recruiting, crowdsourcing, greifing, sabotage, net

Our empirical and theoretical findings have cautionary implications for the future of social search, and crowdsourcing in general. Social search is surprisingly efficient, cheap, easy to implement, and multi-functional across aplications. But there are also surprises in the amount of evildoing that the social searchers will stumble upon while recruiting.

http://socialphysics.media.mit.edu/2014/02/02/a-letter-from-the-social-search-frontier-good-news-bad-news/