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But other than stacking since we don't surface an easy way for users to gauge another user's reputation level.
We are small enough now that you can roughly have an idea. But for instance, if @mallardshead or @davidw posted something today, there might be a lot of newer users who wouldn't know much about their reputation.
(There's also total stacked but since many people hide that, I'm not sure how useful it is in discovering reputation)
Newer stackers shouldn't trust @mallardshead or @davidw, just because we do.
For instance, I zap your posts immediately because I've come to respect your thinking and am interested to read what you have to say, not because of how others regard you.
It's almost like paying a subscription to a blog. I'm not going to pay to read the random thoughts of someone I don't know and who has no track record.
If there's a great, thought-provoking post, that I can judge to be high-quality, then I'll zap it regardless of authorship. Those kinds of posts are not generally what we're talking about, though.
But I would also say that the users of SN do a lot of work to sort out high quality posters and currently the only way it surfaces is through history of zaps. It might be a good thing if that work could be surfaced more easily.
You don’t have to sell me on making trust great again.
In my perfect world, whatever comes next is as transparent and easy to understand as money is the moderator. Too often the karma/merit/seniority systems are difficult to understand.
I think it was @mallardshead writing elsewhere, about SNs, that led me here...
I think about this one a fair amount. We all start from scratch here, so reputation is earned through the repeated game of making valued comments and engaging in good faith with others, which leads to the valuing of one's perspective.
We can't really shortcut this learning process about the mind behind a post and just judge each post "on its merit", because part of what the incentives are for is eliciting the views from people with interesting perspectives.