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Any karma/voting system is going to have issues with bots eventually. By having the system in the first place, you crowdsource, and eventualy that crowd is going to be bots because there is always someone that can derive benefit from manipulating markets, and other related things.

Additionally, competition is important. Adversarial individual decision-making is required for economic calculation to take place. Cooperation is the anti-thesis of this, and it generally fails in ways Mises describes back in the 1930s. You can read more about it in his collected works on Socialism. It applies broadly.

The main issues you'll be immediately faced with once your reach a self-starting saturation, is controlling the noise floor. If its not useful, people won't use it.

Many of these problems don't have any good solutions. GPT makes it cost-effective to destructively manipulate aspects in ways you can't predict as well.

In my general opinion, you cannot develop or preserve community when you have bad actors taking advantage of community. This is most notably seen recently with the many LLM developers crawling any public sites available. Performing what amounts to DDOS attacks.

There can be no goodwill when the status quo is bot driven, and those bots are all about taking or imposing cost through interference.

Its a cursed problem series. Open platforms fail to the flood, Closed platforms fail to lack of engagement, and Semi-Open platforms eat up all your time for little return.




That's true. I’ve set up social login to help keep bots out, but I know it’s not a perfect solution.




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