kaal:claim:3782217-025

Popularity based ranking cannot substitute for editorial control, because people end up relying on unconscious algorithms to determine what is authoritative and the Folk Theorems establish that such algorithms can always be gamed.

People rely on unconscious algorithms which use popularity to determine what is authoritative content. But the lessons of the Folk Theorems again arise, to remind us that such algorithms can always be gamed.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021), News and education, p. 10
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217 · source PDF

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

• user generated content platforms without editorial control

failuresupport: arguedfailure: gameable-popularity-algorithmsfamily: reputation-system-gamingregulatory-failure

• generalizes kaal:claim:6269518-005 No static citation protocol can eliminate all arbitrage opportunities for sufficiently patient and powerful ac...

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