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RE: User Authority - A Better Reputation System With Interesting Applications
Is Pagerank used by Google a pyramid? I mean, because of PageRank people got careful about the quality of their hyperlinks, who they link to and because of that made the process of finding relevant website around certain topic way easier.
Now, we have a metric that tells us who's most followed by real users and who are bot swarm...it's a win/win, much better than the current system.
All I'm saying is that entire careers have been built out of reverse engineering the pagerank algos, and if there's money involved people will always try to "crack" algos.
and those career almost no longer exist. "SEO Expert" are now building websites that are actually doing what the are supposed to do, create value around a particular niche. Black hat is pretty much dead.
So what about this attack vector: An attacking user creates one hundred accounts. These accounts all follow each other giving them a neutral UA. Then all of these accounts follow the attacking user to transfer their UA to the attacking user.
Wouldn't this be a way to undermine the UA system?
I like the idea behind UA, I'm just worried it won't work.
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