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Originally Posted by Charbax
Nope they cannot. If they could game it then Google wouldn't work.
The reliability is at a much higher level than whatever insignificant gaming anyone religious or not might want to try to risk resetting their trust level for their user account on the system.
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You're assuming Google isn't gamed. Bless your heart.
I live in the US. We have megachurches with tens of thousands of people. We have millions of evangelical Christians. I have nothing against them practicing their beliefs but we do not share a common philosophy and many churches have a tendency to mobilize their parishioners against culture they do not like. To be fair, I have staunchly Christian family that do not espouse such censorship. I know not all Christians approve these measures, but enough do that it is a serious force to reckon with. Even if they do not want to quash speech, I doubt many would want their tax money going to works that were opposed to their beliefs. The censorship-minded groups already try to get books banned from our libraries and schools. In some communities, they succeed.
I don't know if you have heard of the vocal opposition to the Harry Potter books. They enjoyed a popularity that won out over the opposition. In this rating system, what do you suppose would have become of these books if the opposition had gotten involved downvoting it early? Many people would rely on ratings to find good works and likely these ratings would shift such controversial works to the bottom.