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RE: Observations Fighting a Serial Plagiarist—True Story!
I admire the work you do. However, I see that there is another way to abuse the system: small groups who vote for each other in the first hour of release, placing them in Trending and Hot.
hmmm.... hadn't considered that. I was wondering why so many insignificant pieces were showing up on trending that had basically nothing to say.
Gaming this honor system is definitely something that needs to be ended.
Note that the first pages are reputations 7 and +. If you check the votes of each article is often the same voters. Surprise !
This isn't happening in large volumes and I think this too will change. Once we have more people on the platform a wide range of content will start trending. From the outset it may look like only superficial content is trending now. Also as is the case in any group of people. We all try to help our friends succeed. Networking plays a role here as it would in the real world. However, there are many things at play with the platform. One has to go deeper to see that happening.