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I think anything will be gamed until gaming it is more costly than its gains. There is enough cheap labour as of now who is willing to game the system - I wonde
by cdavid 16y ago
I think anything will be gamed until gaming it is more costly than its gains. There is enough cheap labour as of now who is willing to game the system - I wonder if there is a correlation between search quality decrease and increase of internet access in countries where people are willing to work for very low wages (I did not find precise enough data on google for the evolution of internet usage in the last few years in third-world countries).
- MikeCapone 16y agoThat's kind of the point of my system. It takes a lot of work to become "trusted", and it's trivially easy for a trusted meta-mod to remove that status from you. If Wikipedia can work, this might just work. But Google would no doubt prefer an algorithmic way to solve the problem. Maybe some form of narrow AI is close enough in the pipeline...
- cdavid 16y agoIt is difficult to scale trust, for once: you would get people who keep submitting everything as spam, until overload of the "spamming" committee you are suggesting (if I understand you well). Many people are not that able to make the difference between spam and not, also (is efreedom spam or not ? If you are not a programmer ?). I also suspect just taking the top 5 % will get a lot of false rejections, which is a real issue. But when I say that there is a cost/revenue issue, it goes both ways: everybody thinks about the cost of spamming, but if the income coming from spamming decreases, it would also fight spam quite well. Decreasing this without decreasing google's revenue may be challenging.