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raymondgh | 1 year ago

Maybe a social endorsement scheme could be an alternative to an invasive proof system.

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yen223|1 year ago

If there's a social endorsement scheme that doesn't involve real-world identity, I don't see how you won't end up with a situation where Bot_A is counted as legit, being endorsed by Bot_B...Bot_Z

ms-menardi|1 year ago

because once Bot_J and Bot_Q are discovered to be bots, then everyone they've authenticated suddenly needs new people to vouch for them.

problem is, how do you figure out someone's a bot? Ah well maybe someone will make an AI tool for that, we humans are too busy doing groceries and putting round cubes into square holes.

raymondgh|1 year ago

That kind of verification could be off-protocol. Perhaps a reputation or incentive system could help as well.

256_|1 year ago

CAs tend to revoke a domain's certificates if it's used for crime. Maybe they should do the same for SEO spam.

vineyardmike|1 year ago

Like maybe a website is considered better if it is linked to by other websites? Kinda like research papers... We could call it "Page Rank".

I bet we could get a major university (eg. Stanford) to help fund the initial deployment. I think we should call it a really big silly number, like "Gazillion" to emphasize how much it knows. Obviously this won't have ads, and it should make an explicit point to not be evil....

Hmm. I think I've heard this before.