[jakear]

The local mom and pop shop aren’t going to be able to compete with Walmart. This only works if both entities have similar technical and financial status.

[brentadamson]

But there's an army of users that will ultimately decide.

[hyperpape]

There's a lot fewer users than there will be bots.

[username3]

Use Stack Overflow’s voting system.

[hyperpape]

What's your reputation, and how does that work with not tracking you?

[brentadamson]

My reputation? None, really. My background is in finance and I'm a self-taught developer. Just tired of not having anything I like. If you don't trust me you can run it on your own server.

[hyperpape]

No, I mean..how do you use the StackOverflow system? It's based on a concept of reputation. What's the reputation in the search engine?