[amelius]

Trust can work both ways. They'd have to be really careful to not lose the earned trust. On the way, they would have to write a lot of high quality HN posts. I'd say this model is a win over current spamming and fake reviewing practices.

[lotsofpulp]

The other side of them having to write a lot of high quality HN posts is me having to read and evaluate more HN posts trying to game me. That is work, and if I sense a lot of it (like I did on Reddit), I will leave, and I suspect others would too.

Playing defense is exhausting when playing offense is extremely cheap.

[amelius]

> Playing defense is exhausting when playing offense is extremely cheap.

HN is quite a large crowd, but not extremely big. An attacker must penetrate a lot of small crowds to be successful.