> "Despite the intervening 16 years, we're amazed that social networks, even Hacker News, don't compute and display the trusted voices across topics. Instead of prioritizing pages based on content, social networks could prioritize the people behind the content."
Fallacy: appeal to authority. Practically, just because someone generates great content on subject A doesn't mean their take on subject B is any better than random. A well-reasoned self-consistent argument informed by accurate data is far more valuble than 'trust this expert opinion because this expert can be trusted' approaches - although it may require more work on the part of the reader. Don't get lazy.
We're trying to stay away from authority and just compute based on what you say then transparently show where that information came from. How do you think we can do better?
Fallacy: appeal to authority. Practically, just because someone generates great content on subject A doesn't mean their take on subject B is any better than random. A well-reasoned self-consistent argument informed by accurate data is far more valuble than 'trust this expert opinion because this expert can be trusted' approaches - although it may require more work on the part of the reader. Don't get lazy.