Crowdhacking
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by miron
Wired latest issue has an article about the emerging arms race between rating systems (such as eBay, Amazon, Digg) and crowdhackers. Crowdhackers take advantage of the naive methods used to aggregate ratings in existing systems.
A crowdhacking proof system will have to use a transitive trust model rather than the naive averaging existing systems use.
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