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Re:The downfall of Quora (2013) by leovan on Sunday September 28, 2014 @12:38PM (#8380162)
this is an intriguing criticism but assumes a corrupted reputation economy. wouldn't a perfect meritocracy be a reputation based economy?
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Re:The downfall of Quora (2013) by rustyconover on Sunday September 28, 2014 @01:08PM (#8380251)
A meritocracy is a type of government not an economy. Or possibly I don't understand your question.
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Re:The downfall of Quora (2013) by leovan on Sunday September 28, 2014 @01:43PM (#8380360)
a meritocracy is a resource allocation system and functionally equivalent to an economy for considering your proposition that reputation based systems lead to bad allocations; i'm questioning that proposition.
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