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How do they ensure that their submitters are being honest?
by GigabyteCoin 11y ago
How do they ensure that their submitters are being honest?
- learc83 11y agoHow could you possibly do this without requiring documents that no one is ever going to give out?
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoJust like with Glassdoor you're not going to be able to verify. Ideally most people will be truthful and the fakes will be minimal but all it takes is a single 4chan "raid" on a new site to populate it with tons of bullshit making it useless. Now the site could at least verify email addresses before showing them to ensure it's not a bot and make people less likely to make up random crap. But that's still not verifying the input.
- fapjacks 11y agoActually did you see the link on HN the other day? From somewhere like the Atlantic or something, which had the story about the attack on the UCSD team's effort to crowdsource-solve a DARPA challenge? Like the whole time they thought it was a sprawling 4chan raid, but it turned out to just be this one dude and his other friend that happened to be around that day. Proof positive that it only takes one determined attacker to undermine an enormous crowdsourced effort.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoNo I hadn't seen that but it sounds unfortunate =/