I am speaking from experience and not just one specific algorithm. Humans are very fallible, accounts can build up reputation cheaply and expend it, and nothing can really prevent this.

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Well yea okay, agreed. No technical tool can counter active, skilled deception and deceit. The ceiling for how well digital tools can do, given human nature, is set outside the digital system - agreed. Some implementations get close to that ceiling, some are really far away.

But either way, this I led us on a big tangent here. We should come back to this another time when you're not in the middle of a loosely-organized resistance against our funding overlords

I think the model of people setting up independent curations is a simple but powerful one

well yes that is the entirety of my interest in this. and mostly what i mean when i talk about "subjective reputation" or "proper WoT". it's more about attestations and curation