Re: META: To my fellow Extropians, calc your ERA

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 10:29:11 MDT


Anders Sandberg wrote:
> I wonder how resistent it is to societies for mutual admiration? If
> Spike and I always rate each other very highly, that ought to be able to
> increase our ERA. It would become even more effective if we could get
> more people into the fanclub. This doesn't need phantom people.

Wouldn't weighting ratings vs. one's average rating of others counter
this? Or are you talking about mutual admiration subgroups of the
whole group being rated (which comes down to the "rate a few people who
I care about one way, and everyone else the other way to skew my
average rating of others")?



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