Patent ID: 8171388

Claim:
A network device for selectively managing display of content items on a content system over a network, comprising: a transceiver to send and receive data over the network; and a processor that is operative to perform actions, including: receiving at least one abuse report from a plurality of abuse reporters indicating that a content item is considered to be abusive by each reporter; determining a content item abuse reputation based, in part, on an accumulation of determined reputations for each reporter of the received at least one abuse report for the content item; determining for an author of the content item an overall content creation reputation for the content item; and selectively hiding a display of the content item on the content system based on a comparison between the determined content item abuse reputation and the determined overall content creation reputation for the author for the content item, wherein selectively hiding the display of the content item on the content system further comprises inhibiting display of the content item on the content system to at least one visitor to the content system, while enabling at least the author of the content item to view the display of the content item on the content system.