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Haha, yeah no way anyone’s going to game that system! No way some clique recruits all of the voting power (collaborators to undergrads) to push their work throu
by nautilius 4y ago
Haha, yeah no way anyone’s going to game that system! No way some clique recruits all of the voting power (collaborators to undergrads) to push their work through, all it takes is LeCun to simply read all papers and his vote will balance everything out!
- MontyCarloHall 4y agoEasy solution: make it so that voting costs karma, so individuals only have limited voting power.
- nautilius 4y agoEasy fix to your solution: get more people to vote. How about all 10000 undergrads in your institution? In your model, a modern day Einstein would have never had a chance; industrialized research, with publication mills and systematic co-authorship permutation is exactly what would flourish under your model.
- MontyCarloHall 4y ago10k undergrads would have few to no highly upvoted publications, and thus little to no voting power, even in aggregate. An even smaller fraction of them would have highly upvoted papers in the specific subfield of the paper they’re voting on, making their aggregated voting power even more worthless. The only way to game the system would be to somehow convince a ton of highly upvoted people in a given subfield to upvote a paper in that particular subfield (and give up some of their voting power accordingly, since voting would cost you karma). Heck, make it so that you can only vote on a certain number of papers each month (5-10?), to make votes even more valuable.