I just put out my first post on the topic: #619793.
It's not specifically about Stacker News and downzapping, but it's the conceptual jumping off point that I'll use for that discussion. Of course, if you want to put your thoughts together into a post, then I'll just jump into the comments.
Just to keep the thread of discussion I prefer to continue in your post if you don't mind. I can paste the above comment there if you think it adds to it
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Absolutely, it's a great comment. I still need to think more about trust scores. I'm not aware of any analogue to them in the experimental econ literature.
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Thank you Sr :)
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