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I think some sort of reputation score would make more sense, assuming it’s possible to design one that can’t be easily faked

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Perhaps something where you can build a graph of who invited whom so you could prune entire sections that act maliciously. One might even consider it a to be a web of connections which are built on (or torn down by the loss of) trust.

Sounds futuristic. Maybe it's an NFT on an agentic blockchain for deep-sea solar farm mining?

Private torrent trackers apparently do this, and have done so for years.

They're sarcastically describing web-of-trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Why are they doing that (i.e. being sarcastic)? Who knows.

Because it's by far the dominant strategy for distributed trust-ranking systems out there, with decades of research around it. Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

And I don't think anyone actually trusts any major actor to verify anything, so a fully centralized system is likely out. Otherwise people would be hype about WorldCoin, instead of recognizing it for the stupendously malicious grift that it is.

> Might as well look at the forest when realizing that it'd be nice if trees existed.

Curse of knowledge much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge

Only if you're one of today's 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Yeah, and what I'm saying is that I think they pretty blatantly were.

You sound like a terrible person to be around.

How would you even know that?

Your condescending replies make you unlikable. I wouldn’t want to be around you and doubt others would either.

I'm not the original user you were talking with. I just think you're just saying things to be upsetting to that user, with no basis in reality.

I didn’t realize, but I’m fairly certain my position has a fairly factual basis.

And shitty comments get even shittier replies.

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