What Raph Koster thinks about social media

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Game designer and theorist. Lead designer of Ultima Online and creative director of Star Wars Galaxies, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design, and founder of Playable Worlds. Has written about game design, virtual worlds and online communities at raphkoster.com since 1998.

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1. 13 Nov 2014

   Our readingDownvotes and other negative-reputation systems make online behaviour worse rather than better.

   Their wordsDownvoting and other forms of negative feedback reputation systems, lead to bad social behavior.

   ↗Social media is brokenraphkoster.com 3rd of 4 in this piece

3. 13 Nov 2014

   Our readingSocial media designers routinely ignore what online-community design already established decades ago.

   design

   Their wordsThis matters because all of these lessons, which are well-established across many fields, are routinely ignored by social media designers.

   ↗Social media is brokenraphkoster.com 4th of 4 in this piece