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So maybe more weight should be put on comment count? Much harder to fake those.
Not that much harder anymore. You don't need a good language model, just one that can spit out believable blurbs of text. Alternatively, you can do what Reddit bots do and just copy parts of other comments.
Using the comment count also promotes rage-bait, making the platform much more polarizing and toxic.
So, the question becomes how do we rank posts and comments in a way that is not based on either upvotes or down votes or number of comments? I could see a trust value being made for each user based on trusted users marking others as trusted combined with a personal trust score, but that puts a barrier on new users and enforces echo chambers.
What else could be tried?
Only if trust starts at 0. A system where trust started high enough to not filter out posts and comments would avoid that issue.