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ChrisHallquist comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 05 July 2014 06:35:29AM *  1 point [-]

Have you guys given any thought to doing pagerankish stuff with karma?

Can you elaborate more? I'm guessing you mean people with more karma --> their votes count more, but it isn't obvious how you do that in this context.

Comment author: gwern 07 July 2014 07:37:59PM 4 points [-]

Ever since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato there have been a lot of proposed trust metrics. Many of them function like Pagerank: you start off with a set of 'seed' users and then propagate influence based on how well users match them.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 07 July 2014 06:01:24PM *  3 points [-]

I agree, it is not obvious. Unlike morality though, this seems like the right application area for pagerank ideas. Example: if you want to know about someone in academia, you ask the top 20 people in a field to get a sensible idea.

So it seems worthwhile to think about/experiment with. I think one would need to iterate, I don't think one can get a sensible system from the armchair.