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How would the PoW mechanism work?

by eindiran 6y ago

superkuh 6y ago
You can see anonymous proof of work voting in action over at notabug.io.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  I was able to upvote something 30 times, myself. Like, the first point of an anti-spam system on a forum is so that you can't just upvote your own crap to the front page. Wonder why this never caught on. /s
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  - superkuh 6y ago
    It's the least worst system that allows for anonymous people to participate (no accounts required). Rather than stopping people the idea is to add just a little friction.
    - hombre_fatal 6y ago
      To say that, you're kinda assuming the objective though and then suggesting that it's a worthwhile one. Like, this poor solution is probably the best thing on some dimension, I would just wonder if it's a dimension worth caring about. The objective seems to be eliminating the requirement of registration at all. Why? Why would I care to enable people to upvote/downvote content that don't care to spend 1 second registering? I also don't think you can make a convincing case that the friction of registration makes or breaks any websites when almost all of the most popular websites require registration. Seems to be me users are willing to jump the hurdle by the millions if they care to engage. It can't be a matter of privacy because the site could be logging your IP address in both cases. It can't really be friction because you could make the most frictionless process possible. Maybe clicking upvote summons a tiny tooltip where you enter a username and password. EZBoard forums back in the day had that -- You would write your whole post and the submit button would assign you a random username that you could then customize. I just see a forum that made the questionable decision to let you infinitely manipulate rankings without even trying to stop you, the actual impl of that (no registration, PoW puzzle, etc.) rather irrelevant.

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How would the PoW mechanism work?

by eindiran 6y ago

How would the PoW mechanism work?

superkuh 6y ago
You can see anonymous proof of work voting in action over at notabug.io.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  I was able to upvote something 30 times, myself. Like, the first point of an anti-spam system on a forum is so that you can't just upvote your own crap to the front page. Wonder why this never caught on. /s
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - superkuh 6y ago
    It's the least worst system that allows for anonymous people to participate (no accounts required). Rather than stopping people the idea is to add just a little friction.
    - hombre_fatal 6y ago
      To say that, you're kinda assuming the objective though and then suggesting that it's a worthwhile one. Like, this poor solution is probably the best thing on some dimension, I would just wonder if it's a dimension worth caring about. The objective seems to be eliminating the requirement of registration at all. Why? Why would I care to enable people to upvote/downvote content that don't care to spend 1 second registering? I also don't think you can make a convincing case that the friction of registration makes or breaks any websites when almost all of the most popular websites require registration. Seems to be me users are willing to jump the hurdle by the millions if they care to engage. It can't be a matter of privacy because the site could be logging your IP address in both cases. It can't really be friction because you could make the most frictionless process possible. Maybe clicking upvote summons a tiny tooltip where you enter a username and password. EZBoard forums back in the day had that -- You would write your whole post and the submit button would assign you a random username that you could then customize. I just see a forum that made the questionable decision to let you infinitely manipulate rankings without even trying to stop you, the actual impl of that (no registration, PoW puzzle, etc.) rather irrelevant.