A friend of mine is interested in the “sovereign artist” model, which basically means that you self publish and self release your own work on your own website, as opposed to using a publishing house or art gallery.
It’s powerful because it gives everyone a platform to share “niche” art, but as a consumer, it can be difficult to find and “curate” high quality, interesting works of art. Is there a rating/voting system that exists that is resitant to internet vote tampering?
I’m talking about how 10 years ago, Amazon reviews were pretty helpful. But now they’ve been swarmed with paid and bot written reviews. Same with Slickdeals and many others.
I’d want a voting system that incorporates some ideas:
Does a project like this exist somewhere? Rather than host that project in one place, it could be powerful to defederate and prevent the temptation to manipulate algorithms.
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The problem breaks down into a few broad sub problems, as I see it.
1 and 2 have solutions. Steam cares about whether you’re a verified purchaser, and the barrier to entry of “1 purchase of a game per vote” is certainly enough to make things harder to bot. Amazon might be able to do the same, but so much of the transaction happens outside their purview that a foolproof system would be hard. Not that it’s in their interest to do so, though.
For places like Reddit or Lemmy, verifying one human per up vote is going to be impossible. New accounts are cheap and easy as a core function of the product. bot detection is only going to get harder, too.
If you used some centralized certificate system (like SSL certs), you could maybe get as granular as one vote per machine, but not without massive privacy invasions. The government does this for voting kinda, but we make a point to keep those private identifiers the government gives private.