All such systems are easily gameable, with conflicting interests; users, vendors, and platform owners have different interests
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Make it a web of trust, put it on the blockchain. I'll trust the reviews of who I follow for my aggregate score. Pay to review/pay to follow.
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Sounds like you caught the @Tribeworthy bug- also known as crowd-contested media.
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looks cool but is there a website where I can search for a particular article, author or publication to see the reviews?
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Nope. But the next iteration of Tribeworthy will have search and rating pages for authors and outlets. You can take a sneak peek at tribeworthy.net on desktop(not mobile optimized yet) or wait and I’ll reach out again when it’s live.
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Been checking out the app. Lots of potential, looking forward to the next iteration. Would also be great to build a custom list of trusted reviewers so that bots and bad reviewers don't taint the scores I see.
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Yeah the next iteration will have a leaderboard featuring the highest rated authors, outlets, and reviewers. And as you may have noticed we feature their User Rating next to every review. Great feedback tho, thanks!
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Great! I'm worried about the Sybil attack at both levels: article ratings, and reviewer ratings. Maybe connect to BitRated or other WoT.. need a way to filter out fake/compromised/paid users/reviews.
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Yeah this is where something like uport might come in handy. Another thing we’re doing to mitigate this risk is by having verified journalists review under a Critics Category similar to how Rotten Tomatoes does it. That gives us a quantifiable and verifiable group of expert...
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... reviewers. This way even if you don’t trust the public or our ability to wipe out bots, you can still trust one of the rating categories.
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As long as I have the ability to build my own list of score constituents (reviewers) and ignore everyone else, it'll be fine. I would not want to trust the lists you build because you might be adversarial/biased.
I don't know how prominent this Critics feature will be but I suspect it will result in a battle to bot/buy your way up the leaderboard, or it will become dominated with extremists who can mobilize their followings to vote.
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