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Not everyone has the same Google Page Rank on sites they control. People who have established a reputation online will have greater voting power. Why is that
by amichail 17y ago
Not everyone has the same Google Page Rank on sites they control.
People who have established a reputation online will have greater voting power. Why is that a bad thing?
Also, letting Google take care of ranking would make spamming difficult without constant human intervention.
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago>>Not everyone has the same Google Page Rank on sites they control. >People who have already established a reputation online will have greater voting power. Why is that a bad thing? Because your reputation in itself doesn't make any particular statement interesting - people with no reputation may have exceptionally good things to say and it's a lot harder to float these up the site if we're relying on Google's hidden algo as opposed to just clicking an upvote button.
- anigbrowl 17y agoI'm interested in collective assessment of the story quality rather than the selection bias created by a well-known poster. For example, Seth Godin is quite famous but what he does isn't my cup of tea; if he retweeted HN submissions his favorites might consistently float to the top, but I would probably not like them, and might start avoiding the highest-ranked stories out of fear that they appealed more to his taste than to mine.