69 sats \ 3 replies \ @satoshe 18 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: Proposal: personal blog @ SN meta
I also like the chronological view idea like the old school forums. It is also very Bitcoinian since Bitcoin teaches us to think about the time chain, ordering events by time.
With regards to the game theory, I think it is essential to deal with the issue of fake upvoting. You can easy send sats back and forth between multiple accounts to upvote your own content without spending any sats. This a circular economy. So how do you detect fraudulent circular tips? I warn against sorting by tip amount.
yeah, catching circular paths is tricky. It's not an easy thing to write code to detect it. But what you can do is decrease weighting of the vote, not the value, by frequency, which reduces the advantage gained and realigns the incentive.
it is amazing to me how the obvious game cheat teks of scammers is still not well understood. I must be getting old.
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Frequency of what?
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frequency of voting. As in, the votes don't matter as much if the user makes them more often, some kind of time decay factor of effect that declines the more votes they make.
There is also the possibility of tracking the circular paths of funds going into these "votes" as well.
Gaming these kinds of forum micropayment systems has got to a point of an art on platforms like Steem and Hive.
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