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31st October 2007 - Link Blog

I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy (via) Ben Brown discusses Consumating’s points system, and the problems that it caused within the site’s community. I’m always fascinated by how small features like this can have an enormous effect on how people use a site.

Posted 31st October 2007 at 4:56 pm

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