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Originally Posted by Charbax
The Internet is that system. On the Internet you can get a much more precise statistic on usage then you could measure with the previous Radio, CD sales, Royalties and other analog systems. The overall trends and usage statistics can be in fact thousands of times more precise than any TV/Radio audience measurement tools used with the measurement of old media. Which does in fact permit the very precise measurement of popularity and quality of much less popular content.
And also making systems that cannot be gamed on the Internet is possible. Just ask Google if they don't know when a Gmail account user is a real person of if it's a robot.
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People can be real and still be voting with an agenda. Churches and political movements can mobilize people to vote down ideas they find objectionable even if they haven't read it. People can have multiple accounts and hire themselves out to influence ratings.