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RE: Trust Score -- Am I missing something?! The trust score would not fix the problem of people gaming HN by organizing to vote on your friends submissions. If
by WestCoastJustin 14y ago
RE: Trust Score -- Am I missing something?! The trust score would not fix the problem of people gaming HN by organizing to vote on your friends submissions. If there is indeed a group of people that are organizing their votes then this would most likely benefit them rather than deter them.
For example -- if a group of people start to vote on a "new start up" blog post of something that the group wants to push to the top.. you are only increasing their trust score and pushing the casual users out.
- benzor 14y agoNot only that, but more generally it seems to me that this "trust" system would cause a "bandwagon" effect on all posts. Other users would be afraid to downvote anything that was taking off, since they would knowingly be causing their own "trust" score to drop.