• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Yes.

    I think a fully p2p system with a community, a user, and a post being identified by a key and connected via asymmetric cryptography, and then a reputation system yielding a number between, say, -100 and +100, would work better.

    That reputation system wouldn’t be like karma, it would possibly also affect whether we store something below -50 score, to then share.

    It should be relative - we may attribute an evaluation to a thing, which would affect its children. Or we may attribute an evaluation to a user, and then derive score for a thing from that user’s evaluation of it. Or maybe all of the described.

    Maybe something like that is going to be easier to build on Locutus when it becomes operational.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think that any single score is going to make everyone happy.

      Maybe if there are multiple user-scoring systems run by various sources, and I can choose which score I want to use as a metric.

      Like, I think that the Marxist-Leninist crowd on some of the left-wing instances is bonkers, but I imagine that they’d say the same thing about me or other people who subscribe to mainstream economics in general. You’re not going to find a Single Source of Truth on that matter.