This is an interesting idea, and something in this area might be pretty neat, but when I imagine using it I feel like I’m regularly going to be faced with a dilemma of whether to upvote someone’s post. If someone who usually has (in my opinion) terrible judgment, makes a great point, today I happily upvote to show appreciation. But if upvoting them also meant slightly increasing how much the system thinks I care about their judgment, I would be much more reticent to do it.
This system works by using who you upvote as a proxy for whose upvotes you trust. In addition to the problem described above, there’s a separate issue which is that I don’t even know people’s upvote patterns. Which means talking about my voting activity as a proxy for my assessment of upvoting trust is a bit fraught.
This is an interesting idea, and something in this area might be pretty neat, but when I imagine using it I feel like I’m regularly going to be faced with a dilemma of whether to upvote someone’s post. If someone who usually has (in my opinion) terrible judgment, makes a great point, today I happily upvote to show appreciation. But if upvoting them also meant slightly increasing how much the system thinks I care about their judgment, I would be much more reticent to do it.
This system works by using who you upvote as a proxy for whose upvotes you trust. In addition to the problem described above, there’s a separate issue which is that I don’t even know people’s upvote patterns. Which means talking about my voting activity as a proxy for my assessment of upvoting trust is a bit fraught.