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> baseless anonymous reports lose any and all credibility What if people paid by extortioners use their own names, proved by their ID cards, to post negative r
by gioele 12y ago
> baseless anonymous reports lose any and all credibility
What if people paid by extortioners use their own names, proved by their ID cards, to post negative reviews?
Each of these people will post one bad review for Pizza 900 (the target) and dozens of good reviews for others pizza places. If they get the timing right, how will you detect them, even if they use their real name?
Anonymity is not the problem here. Trusting information given by somebody else is the problem here.
- jsilence 12y agoThere is only a limited amount of credibility you can generate by paying reviewers from one extorted Bitcoin.
- Scoundreller 12y agoAt the end of the day, the best system will be some web-of-trust referential system. But for so many things, you can't even trust your friends for advice, because they're also in no position to objectively assess their experience. (ie: they'll think their physician is a good one if they're pleasant, and a bad one if they're unpleasant, even if the latter makes excellent treatment decisions and the former doesn't).