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Comment author: lukeprog 08 January 2011 05:02:34PM 2 points [-]

DanArmak,

Yes, there are lots of obvious problems with such a 'real-life karma system', and that is why I did not pursue it further: I don't know how to solve those problems.

That said, Wikipedia has tons of problems in theory, but it works in practice. Either the theoretically fatal problems didn't pan out, or somebody figured out a way around them. Maybe somebody could do the same for a Facebook karma system, maybe not. In any case, I don't know how to get around such problems, and that's why I named my post after the trickle-down effect, not after a Facebook karma system that was proposed as an afterthought.