I’m concerned that splitting the “vote” between these two methods will do harm to the community’s ability to decide what types of work are good.
Could you go into detail about why you think this would be bad? Typically when you are uncertain about something it is good to have multiple (semi-) independent indicators, as you can get a more accurate overall impression by combining the two in some way.
I’m deciding whether organization A is effective. I see some respectable people working there, so I assume they must think work at A is effective, so I update in favor of A being effective. But unbeknownst to me, those people don’t actually think work at A is effective, but they trade their impact certificates to other folks who do. I don’t know these other folks.
Based on the theory that it’s important to know who you’re trusting, this is bad.
Could you go into detail about why you think this would be bad? Typically when you are uncertain about something it is good to have multiple (semi-) independent indicators, as you can get a more accurate overall impression by combining the two in some way.
I’m deciding whether organization A is effective. I see some respectable people working there, so I assume they must think work at A is effective, so I update in favor of A being effective. But unbeknownst to me, those people don’t actually think work at A is effective, but they trade their impact certificates to other folks who do. I don’t know these other folks.
Based on the theory that it’s important to know who you’re trusting, this is bad.