If there's a social endorsement scheme that doesn't involve real-world identity, I don't see how you won't end up with a situation where Bot_A is counted as legit, being endorsed by Bot_B...Bot_Z

because once Bot_J and Bot_Q are discovered to be bots, then everyone they've authenticated suddenly needs new people to vouch for them.

problem is, how do you figure out someone's a bot? Ah well maybe someone will make an AI tool for that, we humans are too busy doing groceries and putting round cubes into square holes.

That kind of verification could be off-protocol. Perhaps a reputation or incentive system could help as well.

Mission fucking accomplished. [0]

0 - https://xkcd.com/810/

CAs tend to revoke a domain's certificates if it's used for crime. Maybe they should do the same for SEO spam.

Like maybe a website is considered better if it is linked to by other websites? Kinda like research papers... We could call it "Page Rank".

I bet we could get a major university (eg. Stanford) to help fund the initial deployment. I think we should call it a really big silly number, like "Gazillion" to emphasize how much it knows. Obviously this won't have ads, and it should make an explicit point to not be evil....

Hmm. I think I've heard this before.