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Push-button endorsement systems are meaningless without a corresponding downvote mechanism. There have to be both sides of the coin, or else you get nothing but
by jonnathanson 13y ago
Push-button endorsement systems are meaningless without a corresponding downvote mechanism. There have to be both sides of the coin, or else you get nothing but meaningless and empty results.
Of course, if you had more of a "karma" style system, you'd have to implement a way to mitigate abuses of the downvote mechanism. But I feel like that's an easier task than trying to derive meaning from endorsements that cost the endorser nothing, and hence mean nothing.
If the stakes aren't real, the results aren't real.
- eru 13y ago> Push-button endorsement systems are meaningless without a corresponding downvote mechanism. There have to be both sides of the coin, or else you get nothing but meaningless and empty results. Those are not the only techniques available. If you look at how Google's PageRank works, a link is like an endorsement, but there's no downvoting possible.
- jonnathanson 13y agoGood point. There's probably a better way to do it than downvotes (also, now that I think about it, who's ever going to downvote someone else on LinkedIn?).