[sixQuarks]

You seem driven and perhaps I'm wrong, but having had experience with building communities, I can tell you that it's very, very difficult to rely on your users to build/create value in a consistent way.

I find it hard to believe that users will be tagging products correctly and consistently. I think you will find your time being eaten up trying to moderate the system and keeping users inline.

There is also the Participation Inequality rule (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/) where 90% of users are lurkers, 9% are contributors, but only 1% make up the bulk of contributions.

[robbystout]

Hey! Thanks for the interesting article. It makes a lot of sense that 90% of people are "lurkers." I would love to see some user interviews with these people to try and figure out what, if anything they are getting out of lurking and not contributing. I agree that consistency in tagging will be a challenge, but one that I think is solvable and scaleable. Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping create this. You sound like you've had some awesome experiences and I'm definitely interested in hearing more about them. Please reach out to me privately so we can talk. [e-mail]