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How do you stop the bots from upvoting? If you make people fill out a recaptcha every time to upvote they just won't bother.
by dual_basis 7y ago
How do you stop the bots from upvoting? If you make people fill out a recaptcha every time to upvote they just won't bother.
- soulofmischief 7y agoAn anonymous, decentralized reputation system which any service could hook into.
- 1_player 7y agoDays later, the HN post "a virus ruined my virtual reputation and I'm now banned from the internet".
- soulofmischief 7y agoThat's the secret sauce behind decentralization. Damage from any one actor, including yourself, is limited both temporally and in scope. Each service would get a unique hash relevant only to them and giving them access to only their scope, and you would keep your private keys safe just like you would SSH keys, crypto wallet keys, or any other sensitive data. If you can't be bothered to do that, then a minor hit to your reputation is deserved from a philosophical standpoint, even if we work to make the system robust and resilient.
- ori_b 7y agoIncluding the spammers?
- soulofmischief 7y agoThe idea is that it would take a long time and lots of effort to build a credible reputation. Someone just beginning to use the internet would either need to slowly build reputation in the most open spaces, or get one or more people to vouch for them through an API. I want to make it fiscally infeasible to run a mass persona farm.
- jason0597 7y agoMaybe make only people logged into their google accounts be able to vote? Surely that should stop most bots