generally skeptical of reputation systems aka reddit-style moderation, but i don’t really know how to articulate my critiques 🤔

shared annotated moderation actions? sure. losing social credits when i fav that post you thought was cringe? skeptical.

reputation is a natural part of social systems but i feel that *encoding it numerically* is a kind of trap

i think in general i feel that software developers are not meaningful innovators, or rather, i do not trust them to come up with a reliable encoding for a system (reputation) that whole disciplines have studiously avoided encoding because of its fluidity and relativity. so when a dev says to me, "we don't need more mods, we just need TrustPoints (TM)" i get very skeptical