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If the fundamental problem is trust, are you really suggesting that "it can't be hard to create" that trust?
by reificator 6y ago
If the fundamental problem is trust, are you really suggesting that "it can't be hard to create" that trust?
- passthefist 6y agoA distributed trust network is a really interesting hard problem but does seem solvable in some ways (as seen by blockchains, though they have their own issues). I've wondered if a somewhat simplistic graph based solution could work, inspired by organizations like medieval guilds and the mafia, where you generally need to be invited to the trust network and promoted to be more trusted within the network as others vouch for your trustworthiness. Suspicious users are highly punished (in the real life examples, often violently) and quickly removed from the network. Obviously can be gamed like any other system, but would be much harder to do so and you can leverage the vouch/invite graph to detect trusted users that are highly connected to suspicious ones. Surely there's something like this out there, though? Or is this just not a valuable business problem to solve?
- lrem 6y agoIsn't this how recommendations in social networks work?
- quantified 6y agoHow many people in a "friends" list are people you actually know?
- dnautics 6y agomaybe this works if you have to 1) be invited and 2) also pay to get in?
- tshaddox 6y agoIt sounds like you're describing a product review site implemented as a distributed trust network, and the plan to establish the trustworthiness of contributors is to bolt on a contributor review site implemented as a distributed trust network.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoBlockchain! Proving that reviews haven't been removed might actually make this a real application for a blockchain.
- corty 6y agoProblem is, you will be forced by courts to remove some reviews for the usual reasons, making you instantly untrustworthy
- whimsicalism 6y agoBlockchain can't be "forced" to remove a review. Not how that works. You can force a public facing site to stop displaying it, but if it's decentralized it is still there. The disadvantage being of course there is no way to remove fake/scam reviews.
- corty 6y agoYou usually build a chain of hashes of messages, not of the messages themselves. Meaning that you can delete the message, leaving evidence of the deletion in the form of a lonely hash in the chain.
- solveit 6y agoYes, but if uncensorability is a feature you want, there's nothing stopping you (other than the enormous cost[1]) from using the messages themselves. [1]: Not necessarily a deal-breaker. For perspective, consider that a 10-word transatlantic telegram in 1860 cost the equivalent of $2600 in 2013 USD.
- willcipriano 6y agoAnother solution is to store a URL and a integer score (so you can rank companies). The longest URL I was able to get through CloudFlare recently was about two thousand characters but most will be much smaller. If someone wants the review taken down they can talk to whomever is hosting the content. Tweets, Medium articles, Facebook posts etc could hold the review content itself. Want to take down 5 unfavorable reviews, then write 5 letters to 5 different companies.
- tasuki 6y agoI want a review site where I can only see reviews from people I have vetted (could be pseudonymous).
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