[Discuss] award system discussion

[Tom]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:25:48PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> But that means if you want to see if someone is untrustworthy you have

Wrong assumption.


You can not know if someone is untrustworthy through the award system.
The Oscars don't tell you which movies suck, either.


> to go on the lack of information saying they're trustworthy, rather
> than the precense of information saying they aren't.  With so many
> people having no medals it's impossible to tell if someone you're
> slightly suspicious of is a known troublemaker, or just someone that
> hasn't get any medals yet.

And that's exactly how it should be.



> As nice as it may be to reward rather than punish, it is less useful.

Only if you assume a system being immune to abuse. Punishments systems
_will_ be abused, and each abuse hurts someone innocent.
Reward systems _might_ be abused, but their abuses don't hurt anyone.


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