I totally agree with the need for this. It's not about replacing human
judgment, it's about giving tools to improve human judgment. For any
proposal to work though, I think we need a way of indicating that an
edit was "bad" in some sense. In eBay parlance, it would be like
negative feedback. But at least with that, you could start to count the
number of good/bad edits for a user. It would be incredibly handy to
know that a given user was +11,000 (56% good) (in other words, a very
active but controversial user - probably a pain in the arse), as
compared to +300 (99% good) - new, but doing a great job.
Any system can be gamed - you just have to make it not worth anyone's
time. Google pagerank can be gamed, but it takes a lot of effort and is
very difficult to do cheaply.
Steve
I also very much like this proposal. If nothing else it would clarify
me for who I am, and give certain people alot less room to insult and
stigmatise others based on tarbaby terms like "troll".
Sam Spade