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It's interesting to read that 'collusion' to game the system is one Digg's weak links. Many crowd-sourcing sites face the same issue. My guess is that dealing
by nethsix 16y ago
It's interesting to read that 'collusion' to game the system is one Digg's weak links. Many crowd-sourcing sites face the same issue. My guess is that dealing with collusion requires balance between absolute crowd-sourcing vs. some oligarchy. A balance which can be left to the user.
- jedberg 16y agoOr smart detection. :)
- nethsix 16y agoYup, but it's not an easy issue as research, e.g., those in P2P, have shown. A bit like the arms-race in anti-virus. Some examples of manipulation include Jon Skeet on StackOverflow (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784257 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784257). Letting users tune their trust has an advantage (hopefully) because given enough configurability and a good UI, every user will different trust configuration making the old adage true to a great extent; for an attacker, "she can fool all people some of the time, some people all the time but not all people all of the time".