...To which people responded with various schemes for fair ranking systems.
...To which people observed that someone will always try to game the ranking systems.
Yep! So long as somebody stands to benefit (profit) from artificially high rankings, they'll aim for that, and try to break the system. Those with more resources will be better able to game the system, and gain more resources... ad nauseam. We'd end up right where we are.
...To which people responded with various schemes for fair ranking systems.
...To which people observed that someone will always try to game the ranking systems.
Yep! So long as somebody stands to benefit (profit) from artificially high rankings, they'll aim for that, and try to break the system. Those with more resources will be better able to game the system, and gain more resources... ad nauseam. We'd end up right where we are.
The only way to break that [feedback loop](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thinking+in+systems+meadows) is to disassociate profit from rank.
Say it with me: we need a global, non-commercial network of networks--an internet, if you will. (Insert Al Gore reference here.)
(Note: I don't have time to read all the comments on this page before my `noprocrast` times out, so please pardon me if somebody already said this.)