Edited sentence: A few users contribute the overwhelming majority of the content, while most users either post very rarely or not at all.A major reason why user-contributed content rarely turns into a true community is that all aspects of Internet use are characterized by severe participation inequality (a term I have from Will Hill of AT&T Laboratories).A similar concept was introduced as "participation inequality" by Will Hill of AT&T Laboratories and later cited by Jakob Nielsen.Any useful postings drown in the mass of "me too" and flame wars.In other words, it is inherent in the nature of the Internet that any unedited stream of user-contributed content will be dominated by uninteresting material.It is also possible to promote the most interesting postings based on a vote by other readers who could click "good stuff" or "bozo" buttons.One idea is to pick a few of the best reader comments and make them prominent by posting them directly on the primary page, while other reader comments languish on a secondary page.The concept was described as follows:.The key problem is the unedited nature of most user-contributed content.The obvious solution is to introduce editing, filtering, or other ways of prioritizing user-contributed content.The term participation inequality regained public attention in 2006 when it was used in a strictly quantitative context within a blog entry on the topic of marketing.This concept is often euphemized as the "1% rule", which does not explicitly refer to the quality of participation, just the quantity.Unfortunately, those people who have nothing better to do than post on the Internet all day long are rarely the ones who have the most insights