Communities run on reputations, and software makes reputations cheap to keep. Wikipedia records what each contributor has done; Xerox's Eureka let repair technicians, not managers, decide which tips were useful, and the reputation from contributing tips was a strong motivator.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  In a process similar to scientific peer review, the technicians themselves, not higher-level managers, decided which tips were useful and which weren't.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  Wikipedia software also maintains records of what each contributor has done, an important part of building and recognizing reputations in this community

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