Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm starting to think you don't even need Reviews, of let's say movies, if: 1. You have Zaps 👉 expression of value in sats instead of a score (people suck at this + has no cost) 2. There's a comment section 👉 discussion about any aspect of the movie
Wait, Zaps are reviews?
Zaps are Ratings
Great! Now i can zap myself into a solid rating using just a few sock puppets
Fake zaps have in principle no difference from fake reviews. It's a bit harder to fake, but at scale there will be services automating it, just like there are services for fake reviews. Wot solves for both zaps and reviews, we solve wot - we get useful signal from any kind of interaction.
True. "Web of Not Spam" is necessary to filter Zaps. Once we have high signal Zaps though, Ratings become unnecessary.
That's why you need to identify and mark bad actors.
I think this is definitely the future. The next big innovation on nostr. The hard part is identifying and preventing gaming.