Instead of a flagging system ranking the credibility of papers once for everyone, can we have a system where each user decides which other users they trust to evaluate papers, and ignore any signal from untrusted users?
For example, I could L1 trust people to evaluate papers and the trustworthiness of other users, and L2 trust others only to evaluate the trustworthiness of papers. If I notice a spurious signal getting in, I can find out who it came from and prune my list of trusted users.
I imagine I'm not the first to think of this. Anyone know of reading material on the topic?