Monitoring method and system using collective intelligence and rating propagation in virtual world community

A computer readable non-transitory storage medium, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a method for monitoring and judging activities in a virtual world environment, the method comprising:

• a witness witnessing activity by a first user in the virtual world environment and reporting the activity to a monitor as possibly malicious;
• said monitor organizing a jury comprised of a plurality of jurors;
• said jurors viewing and judging said activity in the virtual world environment;
• and
• on the basis of said judging, awarding defined benefits in said virtual world environment to said witness, monitor and jurors.

A system for monitoring and judging activities in a virtual world environment, comprising:

• a collective intelligence avatar control module to receive a notification from a witness in the virtual world environment of a specified activity by a user, and for activating a collective intelligence avatar in the virtual world environment;
• a jury selection module for receiving instructions from the collective intelligence avatar to organize a jury comprised of a plurality of jurors to judge said specified activity;
• a voting control module for managing voting by the jury on the specified activity;
• a rating control module for determining ratings for the user, the witness, the collective intelligence avatar in the virtual world environment, and the jurors, and for modifying one or more of the rating based on the voting by the jury;
• and
• a user database for managing rating values for the jurors, and wherein the jury selection module selects jurors at random from users who satisfy defined conditions and in accordance with information obtained from the user database.