On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Brion Vibber 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...
If you do it properly, it's not this easy. Look at advogato - they use a rating
system where close to half the users can be fake, and they still won't get
credit. Instead of simple cross ratings, they use a network, and calculate from
that.
(I'm against ratings on Wikipedia.)
-- Daniel