What a critical piece of information, especially for us all here on this revolutionary platform! Thank you so very much for sharing the fruit of such research with us. As I was driving to school yesterday an "information" doctorate was presenting the results of her research as well. she might very well have been one of the ones included in here.
"It is critical that we understand the dynamics of how social rating systems curate the media that we all see and hear in our daily lives." How can we underline this enough for us all to understand our power as a communities, human beings working together to expose the seeds of the mind, the idea.
As much as there's a phenomena of corrosion from conformity brings about the "gaslighting", to quote you where "reality is determined by others and you see the world the way "they" want you to see it.", it is imperative for us to create groups and groups of groups to curate as objectively as possible, when possible. From there, specific target groups can deal with the matter in regards to the domain in which they are respected for their conscientious and responsible manners in regards to the groups they are affected to. This way "attention from consciousness needs to evaluate content in order for the content to have a more reality-based valuation metric on the site.". Though the problem of what "is reality" will arise, it is not the most common problem we'll have to deal with most of the time, I believe, as long as we refer the curating to open minded, logical, involved and responsible individuals willing to go the extra miles to challenges even themselves in the evaluation of their curation. the grouping and subgrouping will become paramount in order to deal with this matter and the authorship might need to stay as secret as possible in order to keep the human side of many of us from indulging in its darker side of conformity. The double-blind exercise would prove itself extremely valuable here for all of us.
Thanks again for this amazing piece really worth reading thoroughly. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)