[Wikipedia-l] trust metrics

Mon Feb 16 01:14:20 UTC 2004

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> For us, we have nothing like a 'transaction', but the system could be
> generalized from that.  Each person could assign positive or negative
> feedback to others.
...
> 2.  Difficult to game -- it is NOT automated, so there's no way to
> game the system by engaging in repetitive actions to score points.

On the contrary it's very easy to game: create a bunch of sock puppet 
accounts to give each other feedback. On E-Bay you'd have to go to the 
trouble of faking some auctions to yourself, but not here...

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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