Right, but this gameability could have been improved leaning more into reputation scores across the pagerank-style calculation. Yes, this means some manual curation, which Google is allergic to, but it's also much cleaner long run.
I agree Goodhart's law is inevitable for Google search, but it's very hard to game "high reputation human cares about it". The high reputation human has to be bought out, but that should also eventually trigger a downrank of their reputation as a response.
I agree Goodhart's law is inevitable for Google search, but it's very hard to game "high reputation human cares about it". The high reputation human has to be bought out, but that should also eventually trigger a downrank of their reputation as a response.