[jchb]

What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on the web?

If a user posts "I recommend product X", the overlay would say "Caution: This user also recommended the product Y,Z in the last 48 hours. 34/34 of the users post in the last month are product recommendations. Sentiment score for users posts: 100% positive. The following internet accounts are likely controlled by the same individual or organization: ..."

Is it feasible? Does it already exist?

[sjg007]

Somewhat feasible. You really need distributed fact checking to scale up especially since you don’t have source ips. If you can do that you might have something if you can keep participation up.

[noizejoy]

Do source ips still help at all? These days it seems to be rather easy to visit a website from numerous different source ips.

[dang]

I wish they still helped more, but they do still help.

[Pokepokalypse]

and never forget: the black hats will never stop trying to game any system you try to come up with. At this point in time, I think it's pretty clear they have a strong upper-hand.

[jimbomorrison]

Super interesting. We're working on something similar within the news ecosystem.

See https://onesub.io/chrome for the extension (and https://onesub.io/mission for our wider mission)..

[MichaelZuo]

A distributed trust network is feasible given sufficient critical mass. I’m looking into the best way to bootstrap it.

[the__alchemist]

I'm working on something like that.