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Cool. Who are these oracles judging good vs. bad stories going to be?
by aston 19y ago
Cool. Who are these oracles judging good vs. bad stories going to be?
- pg 19y agoI don't know if they'd want to be outed, but as you might expect I'll be one of them.
- run4yourlives 19y agoGood luck to you Paul (and co.) I'm very interested to see how this little experiment pans out.
- ivankirigin 19y agoYou've just created a way for people to game the system. Presumably, you'll submit stories you think are appropriate. Upmodding stories you submit will increase the power of the modder's vote. Avoid revealing the other oracles.
- kingnothing 19y agoPresumably, however, if someone who did that started voting for "bad" stories, his voting power would, appropriately, go through the floor.
- ivankirigin 19y agoMy guess is that these self interested folks would create many accounts, buy cred with mischievous modding, and make a distributed effort to upmod a particular story. They wouldn't do this to upmod any random story. But news.yc needs to get much bigger in order for this to be a real problem. This is a real problem on Digg.
- palish 19y agoI'm pretty sure separate accounts are linked via IP addresses. And the one person who will go to all the trouble to spoof his IP address consistently for each of his 10 accounts isn't worth worrying about. We're small, and we're going to stay small for awhile (hopefully), so this really isn't worth worrying about.
- bigidea 19y agoSince everyone will have weighted voting power, all you will have to do anyway to game the system is upvote anything with a lot of votes. Steadily build up your karma with this bandwagon method, and then bam spring some ad-infested blog spam upon everyone.
- rms 19y agoThis can be accounted for by giving more weight to those who vote for a story early in its accumulation of points. The biggest voting power boost is given to someone who gives a story its first point.