alienist comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alienist 19 December 2014 06:11:28AM 7 points [-]

An attacker creates a large number of nodes and overwhelms any signal in the initial system.

For the specific example of a reddit-based forum, it's trivial for an attacker to make up a sizable proportion of assigned reputation points through the use of sockpuppets. It is only moderately difficult for an attacker to automate the time-consuming portions of this process.

Limit the ability of low karma users to upvote.