This is one of several slide decks from a workshop Mark Trammell and Daniel Burka presented at dConstruct 2008 in Brighton. The workshop theme was about designing for scale in online communities.

1. 2008
Encouraging positive
behavior in the crowd
Photo credit: Flickr user ‘striatic’

2. Workshop: “Encouraging positive behavior in the crowd” 2008
Young vs Established
• Massive change happens as sites mature
• Originally participation is mostly benevolent
• Some ‘negative’ behaviors are really people using
your system as it was designed. Take it in ways you
didn’t imagine.