Brion Vibber wrote:
Jimmy Wales 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.
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- 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...
Of course there would be listing fees at eBay. And there would alwys be the risk that you might be outbid by someone who didn't realize that you weren't selling anything. :-)
Ec