Decius wrote:

Unfortunately, I don't think many of the commentators have RTFAed ...

Such as this:

It's typical nerd hubris to believe that you can solve social problems through technological means.

The commenter fails to recognize that government itself is technology. Written language and books are technology.

The "nerd hubris" here is to be forever in search of "solutions" to "problems." Perhaps because of the "puppy smoothies" in the title, the silly rabbits immediately hop to the vandalism angle, when in fact the question of scrutiny pops up in the normal course of business, without anyone necessarily intending to spoil things for everyone. Another commenter hits this on the head by explaining that

twenty teenage idiots plus one expert are indistinguishable from twenty-one idiots.

Decius wrote:

There is an excellent article in this month's First Monday about using reputation systems to limit the effects of vandalism on public wikis like Wikipedia.

The Puppy Smoothies article has been Slashdotted. Unfortunately, I don't think many of the commentators have RTFAed but there are some interesting perspectives in here nonetheless.

Let's see some traffic graphs. :)