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I'm surprised that there are no voting systems which simply detect cliques, and make your votes weaker when you're voting for someone in your clique. That is,
by mcantor 17y ago
I'm surprised that there are no voting systems which simply detect cliques, and make your votes weaker when you're voting for someone in your clique.
That is, the more you vote for someone's submissions, the less "power" your votes have when voting on them. As long as you balanced it correctly, you would maintain the theme of compelling submissions hitting the front page while removing clique-based vote problems.
If someone is so awesome that everyone upvotes every single submission they have, and are thus part of their "clique," it still wouldn't be a problem, because there would be enough people upvoting their submissions to counteract the juice being removed from their individual votes.
- sophacles 17y agoThe ultimate problem with this is there is it invites more gaming, which invites more rules.... and so on.
- mcantor 17y agoTrue, but it doesn't invite any more gaming than the existing system. That is, you could game the "clique" system by registering new accounts, but you could game the existing system that way, too.
- sophacles 17y agoI dont know, sometimes codifying rules invites more gaming, particularly in computery situations. When the rules are hard like that, a "win" is more consistent and noticeable so more people will do it/notice the pattern/etc. Also, my original meaning of more wasn't too clear, which was: adding more rules can create unbalanced situations in which gaming has a greater effect, since more rules stacking in weird ways potentially amplifies things.
- Perceval 17y agoThere are voting systems which attempt to detect cliques or rigged voting. These are called "sybil attacks." There is a good deal of academic literature that you can find on the subject, and attempts to reduce the weight of en masse voting by tying it to a probability distribution. I wrote a diary on this subject with some links if you're interested: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/12/8/01628/8328 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/12/8/01628/8328