We already have this. You have to do the work though. By being a regular participant in discussions and reading threads you will develop your own list of accounts you have grown to trust. You must do this for yourself and not simply rely on others giving their trust ratings. Over my years of participating in boards like Poal, I have determined that there are accounts that many other users trust and respect but I just can't bring myself to share in that trust and respect because they don't harmonize with my own ways. Trust ratings are distorted by clique/echo chamber in-group biases so why would you want to trust someone based on their cronies' opinions? Your trust should be based on your interactions with them and not some recommendation from their allies.
You must do this for yourself and not simply rely on others giving their trust ratings.
That is fine for 20 users, but, for example, i don't recognize your name even though you are level 34. I am guessing that you do interact with users, and probably users that i do recognize as being good contributors.
I think you are missing the point. This would create an echo chamber only if you chose to endorse people based on their opinions, not their contributions. If you chose that then it only affects you.
i don't recognize your name even though you are level 34
I was also Morbo on Voat from just it changed from Whoaverse to Voat and I was very active there too. I don't recognize you either, but I can see from your Poal birthdate that you came from Voat on shutdown day.
I think you are missing the point. This would create an echo chamber only if you chose to endorse people based on their opinions, not their contributions.
Your logic would make engrish_is _hard one of the most trusted accounts on Poal. He contributes a lot of content and has a high (edit: missed adding 'high') post/comment upvote count. Is e_i_h someone you would trust given those contributions? You have to do the work yourself and keep notes if it's important to you to know who is trustworthy. You need to determine what criteria makes someone trustworthy and label them accordingly. We don't need a system that can be abused/gamed by bad actors.
I wrote my own code to apply badges and tags to the users I want to watch/follow, but that's not something everyone can do. I wanted that functionality since Voat had the AVE script/extension that could do that (and other enhancements). No such thing exists for Poal in a public sense so I made my own. Sorry, I'm not sharing it though because I don't want to bombarded with support/feature request messages all the time from other users. Been there, done that and it's not worth it for something "free". Anyway, work out your own methods and criteria and put in the effort. You can't rely on others to sort things out in a way that works for you.
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