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Using data from three large-scale social tagging platforms, we explore (a) how to best quantify the imbalance in tagging behavior and formally define a supertagger, (b) how supertaggers differ from other users in their tagging patterns, and (c) if effects of motivation and expertise inform our understanding of what makes a supertagger. Our results indicate that such prolific users not only tag more than their counterparts, but in quantifiably different ways. Specifically, we find that supertaggers are more likely to label content in the long tail of less popular items, that they show differences in patterns of content tagged and terms utilized, and are measurably different with respect to tagging expertise and motivation. These findings suggest we should question the extent to which folksonomies achieve crowdsourced classification via the \u201cwisdom of the crowd\u201d, especially for broad folksonomies like Last.fm as opposed to narrow folksonomies like Flickr.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1561\/106.00000002","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,4]],"date-time":"2015-08-04T08:40:18Z","timestamp":1438677618000},"page":"16-32","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The Wisdom of the Few? \u201cSupertaggers\u201d in Collaborative\n                    Tagging Systems"],"prefix":"10.1561","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Jared","family":"Lorince","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Indiana University Cognitive Science Program"},{"name":"Indiana University Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sam","family":"Zorowitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Massachusetts General Hospital and 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