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by godelski 873 days ago
Well you did say that your metrics "cannot be hacked."

The XKCD one can actually be easily hacked. Just spam the system and rate every comment as helpful. Classifier learns to accept everything. There's dozens of way to hack this one and undermine the actual goal. But it is a comic, and it is funny. Doesn't need to be realistic.