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Also consider that a good judge is doing a useful service to society, but isnt necessarily in the business of maximizing other people’s happiness.

> It could be “being a good producer” and “being a good judge” are different things

Yes I agree with this in principle. Although in this case what "good" is, is ill-defined - or rather different to everyone. The scoring each person performs is actually most directly a statement of utility to the scorer. That should probably go into the piece as an edit :-)

btw I also agree that pure PageRank on the endorsement links might benefit from tweaking, although some of the common failure cases for PR on the web don't apply here - you can't generate piles of extra humans to endorse-link to yourself.

However you can convince or bribe humans to give you an extra rating. Ever were in a "democracy" of today? The winners have money and/or backing.

Any rating thst isn't bribe proof or mutual ranking proof will get instantly gamed and you end up in a neofeudalism.

addressed in the piece