RE: User Authority - A Better Reputation System With Interesting Applications

[flugschwein]

But would high UA accounts start selling their follows then? Can the system be gamed with that? Tbh I haven't really understood UA yet. Will really take the 2 hours (or more) once I have some free time to do so. xD

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[scipio]

Follow selling is possible, but presumably counter-productive to both buyers and sellers:

• it only makes sense to buy follows from high-UA accounts, but when it does, that high-UA is worth more than selling it
• because other high-UA people frown upon selling follows, the high-UA seller will be unfollowed, losing more UA
• also interesting, because people can follow & unfollow at zero cost and any time, how should the follow buyer know if their money is well spent?
  After paying, the buyer can be unfollowed, and the other way around, if a buyer only pays the seller after a certain time period, how does the seller know he gets paid at all? Of course "smart contracts" could be a way to make sure the buyer pays and the seller follows, but that would be public and therefore risky to lose followers.

So "thinking practical" makes sense a lot in order to guess what could happen.

PS: did you already take the time needed to read up about, and understand UA, as you wrote above?

[fknmayhem]

What you ask is answered by the tremendous high cost of SEO: tremendously high because obtaining one link does not do that much long term, thus the whole strategy has to be longer in approach and keep targeting only the highest scores. These can be “poor minnows” even btw.

Just like PR UA always has always more data (if I understand it correctly) and thus becomes always fairer in output value with each new data input.

[scipio]

Nope, it is possible to attack UA, so to state that "more data always becomes fairer" is a bridge too far. However, we're virtually simulating severe attack scenarios to UA, and harden UA against it.