It’s stupid because people will use it as a social credit score and gaming of zaps, likes, and follow feeds is only an issue for people trying to derive metrics and don’t really matter to actual users.
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Humans have been applying social scores for 200,000 years, I don't think that will change anytime soon
Yah, so let’s let some developer give us a number on a screen so we don’t have to think for ourselves anymore. Great idea.
That can be said of lots of tools invented by humans. Web of trust is another tool that can surface existing information in compressed form. It does not mandate any numbers on a screen, that is one implementation choice