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Yes, but what happens when your community find out that you no longer believe in God or that you think the Earth actually revolves around the Sun. It's not when
by smackay 13y ago
Yes, but what happens when your community find out that you no longer believe in God or that you think the Earth actually revolves around the Sun. It's not when things go right but when things go wrong that matter. The points of failure for this type of system are innumerable.
The real goal is building social/political systems that are robust and have checks and balances so that they cannot be perverted by special interests and are accessible to those who need them (child abuse support lines are a good example). Anything where a group intervenes on behalf of an individual is prone to disaster.
- 7952 13y agoThe system you describe is exactly what we have in the world now. The financial system has numerous checks and balances and is notoriously prone to non-virtuous behavior. Aren't hacker news or stackexchange examples of creating virtuous behavior using an algorithm, and a strong community? It is self regulating because if you suddenly have a deep opposition to the ethos of a community you can just leave (slashdot -> digg -> reddit).
- roc 13y agoYou can 'just leave' pseudonymous communities because their aggregated judgment doesn't follow you to the next one. But if one's real identity is flagged as "(likely) sociopath" on a Real Name service, how does one 'just leave' that determination behind? Are search engines and archives going to all willingly 'forget' that data when you 'just leave' Facebook? Are they going to not aggregate and correlate it to any new service you join? This is one of the huge points of criticism of Real-Name-required services: a person can never escape an unjust judgment of such communities, due the long memory of the internet.