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I wonder if anyone remembers Advogato and its certification/reputation system. It claimed to be very difficult to subvert. I'm sure that was naive and it held
by throwaway81523 5y ago
I wonder if anyone remembers Advogato and its certification/reputation system. It claimed to be very difficult to subvert. I'm sure that was naive and it held up because nobody back then was that motivated to game it, but even today, a little human oversight could probably steady it. So I wonder if something like it could be used for arxiv, relieving some of the endorser/moderation stuff that they have now.
- raphlinus 5y agoYes, I bet you could do something interesting there, but one of the lessons is that social graphs can become very noisy, especially if people have an incentive to add edges. Don't expect a purely technical (reputation) system to solve what is a social/cultural problem.