China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour

Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by rapind on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:32PM (#9447828)

Is it wrong that the first thought in my mind is how to influence their ratings at scale? "Diaper stuffing" while humourus is probably not far off the initial reputation optimization schemes that have probably already commenced.

I'd say there's a good chance you'll be able to buy your way to a top score while the poor become the geocities of citizens.

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by Red_Tarsius on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:13PM (#9448121)

You raise a very interesting point. Maybe the ranking is also designed to stimulate the economy.

> "Diaper stuffing" while humourus is probably not far off the initial reputation optimization schemes that have probably already commenced.

The government would keep the algorithm a secret, so there would be a SEO for human beings: the CRO citizen ranking optimization. CRO would tell you what books to buy, the top 10 items to boost your rating, what people you should befriend...

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by rapind on Monday April 27, 2015 @04:19PM (#9448832)

It's possible they'll license http://www.google.ca/technology/pigeonrank.html

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by mike_hearn on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:27PM (#9448576)

* I'd say there's a good chance you'll be able to buy your way to a top score*

This is a country that imposes the death penalty for corruption. Social hacking isn't something that is going to happen there.

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by rapind on Monday April 27, 2015 @04:33PM (#9448910)

There's a lot of assumptions in your statement.

1. That death penalty is an effective deterrent.

2. That social hacking would be tried as corruption, or even at a level of corruption for the death penalty.

3. That China doesn't have a corruption problem already regardless of the potential penalty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_China (not saying this is the truth, just that you're making an assumption that not everyone agrees with)

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by deniszgonjanin on Monday April 27, 2015 @05:26PM (#9449187)

In a system where social ranking determines opportunity, employment, and all other aspects of life - you better believe social hacking is going to happen.

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by fweespeech on Monday April 27, 2015 @04:10PM (#9448786)

If I bought large quantities of textbooks written by Party Authors and used them to support my tables and benches...would that lead to an execution for corruption or a higher CRO for ingenuity? ;)

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Re:China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour by tomjen3 on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:00PM (#9448010)

If anything that simply proves you have the mind of the hacker, which is good for you and for society.

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