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I wonder if you would even need to pay people---someone (google would seem like an obvious candidate) could write a browser extension with a "total crap" button
by john_horton 16y ago
I wonder if you would even need to pay people---someone (google would seem like an obvious candidate) could write a browser extension with a "total crap" button. I know I'm sufficiently annoyed when I land on some spammy garbage that I'd like to punish them with a consequential down vote.
Hopefully you could get enough legitimate uptake to make paying people to fraudulently vote wouldn't be worth it.
- jakevoytko 16y agoSuppose the 4chan hivemind decides to mass-spam your startup with hundreds of thousands of downvotes over the next few weeks. How would you have any recourse in situations like that?
- john_horton 16y agoYou'd probably have to have a trusted human-in-the-loop. I.e., if a site gets enough down votes, it would trip some internal procedure to review the site. I think also if you didn't generate public feedback (i.e., you didn't list the most down voted sites for example) you'd avoid the kind of Beiber-to-DPRK stunt that 4chan would be interested in.