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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by amelius on Sunday July 10, 2022 @07:00AM (#32043578)
Trust can work both ways. They'd have to be really careful to not lose the earned trust. On the way, they would have to write a lot of high quality HN posts. I'd say this model is a win over current spamming and fake reviewing practices.
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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by lotsofpulp on Sunday July 10, 2022 @07:17AM (#32043662)
The other side of them having to write a lot of high quality HN posts is me having to read and evaluate more HN posts trying to game me. That is work, and if I sense a lot of it (like I did on Reddit), I will leave, and I suspect others would too.

Playing defense is exhausting when playing offense is extremely cheap.

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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by amelius on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:26AM (#32044070)
> Playing defense is exhausting when playing offense is extremely cheap.

HN is quite a large crowd, but not extremely big. An attacker must penetrate a lot of small crowds to be successful.

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