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I really like the idea. However, let's think about abuse patterns: what prevents CEO agency from creating 1k t2.micro instances and clicking upvote for a link of interest and downvote all the competitors?

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What prevents their competitor from downvoting them? The rate limit applies equally to everyone.

EDIT: The scoring function can also be customized. https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch/blob/master/search/...

The local mom and pop shop aren’t going to be able to compete with Walmart. This only works if both entities have similar technical and financial status.

But there's an army of users that will ultimately decide.

There's a lot fewer users than there will be bots.

Use Stack Overflow’s voting system.

What's your reputation, and how does that work with not tracking you?

My reputation? None, really. My background is in finance and I'm a self-taught developer. Just tired of not having anything I like. If you don't trust me you can run it on your own server.

No, I mean..how do you use the StackOverflow system? It's based on a concept of reputation. What's the reputation in the search engine?

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