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Interesting point; it is much like the problems of trying to assess programmer productivity.



I was thinking it's much like Google trying to deal with SEO. Most people optimize for high google ranking, not quality content.

Google periodically changes the evaluation, in theory to reward good content and penalize bad, but people still try to game the system, rather than improving content.




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