Ask HN: Any ideas for a better term than "Crowd Sourced"?

what is the negative connotation with crowd? if it was herd sourcing i could see the negative connotation- with crowd not so much except when use along the lines of "i don't follow the crowd". still that use of crowd is spot on for what crowd sourcing is- following the crowd.

Collective, mass sourced?

I like this only that it does not somehow capture the aspects of 'crowd sourced' that suggest that certain content will rise to a more visible status based on the activities of the community.

So "community sourced" might be a definite step in the right direction. Still wouldn't mind replacing the sourced part ... if possible.

The Wikipedia article on crowdsourcing suggests both "community-based design" and "open call". You might consider perusing the rest of it for other ideas.

Excerpt:

Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call.

For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known as community-based design[1] and distributed participatory design), refine or carry out the steps of an algorithm (see human-based computation), or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing