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Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 May 2015 07:30:17AM 2 points [-]

As I mentioned above, Corey Doctorow tried to solve this problem with "Whuffie," but I think Whuffie is fundamentally flawed, and would not provide a well-functioning incentive structure.

Whuffie is love, and love does not scale.