Yup, Chinese style social credit score. (This type of control is going to be tried everywhere…)
I think something can be done to assess online trustworthiness, but more by rewarding good behavior and long lasting and diverse relationship than punishing bad behavior.
Trust is a link built and maintained over time.
I don't hate recommendation algorithms, that's quietly literally my main field but they should be used for discovery not for censorship.
A global, top-down "reputation" is a horrible idea. Instead we need a bottom-up approach.
We need "Trust Lists" that work like follow lists and block lists only they're the people you trust to moderate your content for you. So let people in your community determine the reputations of people - don't leave it to some global censor.
Given that that article is a dozen years old - do you know if anyone has studied to see if it still holds water. A lot has happened on the topic of online credibility in the past decade…
Sadly the interesting stuff I found was behind paywalls. I just found it interesting in its approach.
I’ve done a few rounds of search on the topic as I see it as the base for a whole lot of stuff (in my case decentralized academic accreditation) but I’d say from what is available freely nobody has cracked it, and there are some pretty horrible ideas floating.
