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.
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Right we’re trying to balance this with the threat of echo chambers which is why we’ll have the followers feature and have Critics be made up of top rated authors only.
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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.