How this prototype relates to metacrap

We touch most of the points made by Doctorow. Generally we think his points are valid, but we as site-owners tried to minimize their impact.

People lie

Tags can be voted up and/or down. We rely on the collective intelligence to make lying hard.

People are lazy

All input fields use auto-completion. Thereby people don't need to spell things out in order to enter them.

People are stupid

By auto-completing people get hints what actions are possible. They are guided through the process.

Mission: Impossible -- know thyself

Since tags are collected collectively one single person does not need to know all relevant tags.

Schemas aren't neutral

We use the same tags for all courses. They might not be neutral itself but all courses have the same tags available.

Metrics influence results

We present a relative homogeneous group, the controlled vocabulary should be fitting for all courses.

There are many ways to describe something

Users can only use a finite number of tags. Thereby they will hopefully over time generate a consensus about the best fitting tags.