But, I don’t really see a reason to have personas be explicitly linked to the central persona. Hmm. Usually you’d want to give them a friend endorsement (proof of humanity), but if you had a friend who you trusted enough, maybe you could get them to do it, or maybe they’d go without. It occurs to me that it might be quite hard to go without, and of course, the friends you trust the most are going to end up visibly connected to you most of the time.
How it works on Twitter is that you make an alt, you follow a few people who you think might like your alt, you post good content, some people check their follows and (if they like your content) follow you back. This seems to work despite Twitter being one of the worst offenders in terms of people abusing this very system to try and get follows. Oh, also, you can interact with other’s content and if your interactions are good they might check you out.
I think you’re imagining that this couldn’t work in your proposed system because you need at least some level of endorsement before your stuff is visible at all to anyone. But naturally, this depends on user settings, and user settings depend on the overall equilibrium. If there isn’t too much abuse, people will have more relaxed settings and be open to totally anon (unendorsed) interactions. If there is too much abuse, they won’t. So, by game-theory logic, things should probably land in an equilibrium somewhere in between where a totally unendorsed account can get a little bit of attention from humans, who will then verify that it doesn’t look like a spambot.
How it works on Twitter is that you make an alt, you follow a few people who you think might like your alt, you post good content, some people check their follows and (if they like your content) follow you back. This seems to work despite Twitter being one of the worst offenders in terms of people abusing this very system to try and get follows. Oh, also, you can interact with other’s content and if your interactions are good they might check you out.
I think you’re imagining that this couldn’t work in your proposed system because you need at least some level of endorsement before your stuff is visible at all to anyone. But naturally, this depends on user settings, and user settings depend on the overall equilibrium. If there isn’t too much abuse, people will have more relaxed settings and be open to totally anon (unendorsed) interactions. If there is too much abuse, they won’t. So, by game-theory logic, things should probably land in an equilibrium somewhere in between where a totally unendorsed account can get a little bit of attention from humans, who will then verify that it doesn’t look like a spambot.