Here is my opinion regarding how to fight this. Spam is exploiting a broken trust model. If I make a brand new account on hacker news, tell me why you should t

Here is my opinion regarding how to fight this. Spam is exploiting a broken trust model. If I make a brand new account on hacker news, tell me why you should trust it? Because I'll tell you right now how much you DO trust it, it's completely. You will see what is written. Why are you even seeing this post right now?! Do you know me? Do you know that I make good submissions? Am I waste of your time? I'm some random jerk with a random name. We pile all our content onto a single point, and we aggregate our opinions on a single point, and let all comers join that single point with all the privileges therein. First principles this is vulnerable to a Sybil attack. We should actually recognize what trust IS. It is something PERSONAL. NOT CENTRALIZED!!. We need to wake up to the fact that the moment you try to pile trust into a central point, the system will break. Trust. must. be. distributed.