If you have a more-legible quality signal (in the James C. Scott sense of “legibility”), and a less-legible quality signal, you will inevitably end up using the more-legible quality signal more, and the less-legible one will be ignored—even if the less-legible one is tremendously more accurate and valuable.
Your suggestion is not implausible on its face, but the devil is in the details. No doubt you know this, as you say “this sketch has many problems of its own”. But these details and problems conspire to make such a formalized version of the “expert’s vote” either substantially decoupled from what it’s supposed to represent, or not nearly as legible as the simple “people’s vote”. In the former case, what’s the point? In the latter case, the result is that the “people’s vote” will remain much more influential on visibility, ranking, inclusion in canon, contribution to a member’s influence in various ways, and everything else you might care to use such formalized rating numbers for.
The question of reputation, and of whose opinion to trust and value, is a deep and fundamental one. I don’t say it’s impossible to algorithmize, but if possible, it is surely quite difficult. And simple karma (based on unweighted votes) is, I think, a step in the wrong direction.
If you have a more-legible quality signal (in the James C. Scott sense of “legibility”), and a less-legible quality signal, you will inevitably end up using the more-legible quality signal more, and the less-legible one will be ignored—even if the less-legible one is tremendously more accurate and valuable.
Your suggestion is not implausible on its face, but the devil is in the details. No doubt you know this, as you say “this sketch has many problems of its own”. But these details and problems conspire to make such a formalized version of the “expert’s vote” either substantially decoupled from what it’s supposed to represent, or not nearly as legible as the simple “people’s vote”. In the former case, what’s the point? In the latter case, the result is that the “people’s vote” will remain much more influential on visibility, ranking, inclusion in canon, contribution to a member’s influence in various ways, and everything else you might care to use such formalized rating numbers for.
The question of reputation, and of whose opinion to trust and value, is a deep and fundamental one. I don’t say it’s impossible to algorithmize, but if possible, it is surely quite difficult. And simple karma (based on unweighted votes) is, I think, a step in the wrong direction.
As far as an algorithm for reputation goes, academia seems to have something that sort of scales in the form of citations and co-authors:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/08/the-problem-with-prestige.html
It’s certainly a difficult problem however.