Sybil attacks are tough. There isn't much out there to negate them completely. Somehow you have to incentivize "being good" over the benefit of having multiple accounts. (Whatever that may be.)
Sybil attacks are tough. There isn't much out there to negate them completely. Somehow you have to incentivize "being good" over the benefit of having multiple accounts. (Whatever that may be.)
We do take activity quite serious, especially since most people on here aren't really "big" outside of the ecosystem, there's usually no excuses to not be active in consuming and engaging with the rest of the community. At the same time this means that those who are active usually do get more activity back towards their posts which matters before we cast our votes.
Those on alt accounts just looking to milk upvotes through content most of the time won't bother being active on all of them and at the same time doing so means there's more room for error and once an error occurrs like the most common "oops replied to myself pretending I was another account", it's rip to your reputation of all accounts you've built up til then.
That's true. There could always be a layering of multiple algorithms to come up with a composite score. Set a threshold. Boom. Also, it might be the one time I'd say that the algorithm should be black-boxed.