Patent ID: 8510391

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining reputation scores for members of an online community, each reputation score corresponding to a member of the online community and representing a perceived value of contributions of the corresponding member to the online community; selecting a subset of members from a set of the members in the online community as a plurality of juror candidates, the subset of members being smaller than the set of members in the online community; wherein selecting the subset of members comprises selecting one or more members from the online community to be in the plurality of juror candidates based at least on one or more reputation scores associated with the one or more members; in response to an abuse report concerning content provided by a particular member of the online community, sending one or more invitations to invite the plurality of juror candidates to provide input concerning the abuse report; receiving input concerning the abuse report from one or more jurors in the plurality of juror candidates; based at least on the input received from the one or more jurors, selecting a manner of responding to the abuse report; and responding to the abuse report in the manner that was selected based on the input; wherein the method is performed by one or more computer devices.