| Hello Aaron, First of all thank you for taking the time to check out our project! Indeed the website feels a bit outdated atm as it was designed for the project announcement[1] and alpha signup, but we will change our website when we enter the alpha phase (Oct/Nov most likely). We progressed quite a bit since the website release/announcement and we are now weeks away from sending pre-alpha invitations to the people who have signed up on our website. The challenge you are pointing with regards to quadratic voting and proof of identity is indeed an interesting one and difficult to solve. Fortunately there are many bright minds in the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond who are working on this specific issue. For us, especially in the pre-alpha/alpha stage, the quadratic voting is mainly used to support the authors with ETH for their contributions with minimal cognitive effort for the supporter - in a couple of clicks you could send anything from 1 cent to $1 for example. There could be weird side effects such as a sea of alt ids created with the purpose of trolling, but it is worth mentioning that there are some costs associated with broadcasting these new identities on the blockchain so in some sense "trolling" will involve money. That alone should discourage trolling to some extent, but again without real data and real people using the system this is just a theory. We will know more once the dapp is out in the wild :) [1] - http://blog.akasha.world/2016/05/03/unveiling-akasha/ |