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Trust and Social Responsibility in Social Media: AutoDoxxing Idea
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People love social media points, karma, upvotes, awards, doo-dads. They hate being doxxed. Things inevitably get more wild as the fight for attention continues, bubbles tighten, and eventually extremists and fake accounts take over. Nothing new here. Does the following sound like part of a solution? (Don't get hung up on the specifics, and obviously trust in the social network company is an issue to address.)
- Anyone can make an anonymous account. As often as they like. (Think reddit account creation, where even email is optional.)
- These accounts are limited in the number of 'karma' points they can accrue, to a small number. They are tagged with a flair whenever they interact with the site, something like 'anonymous coward.'
- In order to accrue more 'karma', the account must provide ever more accurate information about the identity of the account owner. Each tier has a new upper limit of 'karma' and a more trustworthy flair. A coordinated action among users of next higher tier may be required to allow a user into that tier -- suspected bad actors may be kept at a lower tier.
- Tier 1: just a username
- Tier 2: unique email
- Tier 3: proof of physical address (like Nextdoor)
- Tier 4: government license
- Tier 5: ...and so on, up to and including potentially damaging information
- Each Tier also helps identify individuals. Individuals are allowed to have multiple accounts, but they will always be identified publicly as belonging to the same individual or organization.
- The Tier information is encrypted so that neither the social network nor the individual may decrypt it. Only the user may completely destroy their info, by destroying their account -- all interactions on the site are they tagged with info that the user destroyed their account. Otherwise, only a coordinated action by a number of users of higher Tier may decrypt the information. This decryption IMMEDIATELY DESTROYS THE ACCOUNT and PUBLICLY PUBLISHES THE INFORMATION.
People would have easily understood info about how much they should trust a poster. They know people with big karma have a lot of skin in the game. They know people with small karma are either casual users, extremely new, or likely bots and sockpuppets.
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June 04, 2020 at 02:32PM
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