On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Brion Vibber 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...
If you do it properly, it's not this easy. Look at advogato - they use a rating system where close to half the users can be fake, and they still won't get credit. Instead of simple cross ratings, they use a network, and calculate from that.
(I'm against ratings on Wikipedia.)
-- Daniel