You bring up a good point about people trying to game the system. There’s a lot of things we do and also technology that can be deployed to prevent this. Firstly, we can try to prevent gaming altogether by ensuring accounts are legitimate (e-mail verification, requiring real names etc), checking I.P. addresses and capturing unusual voting patterns (frequency, time, duplicates etc).

But there will always be people who will find a way to cast votes that are not legit, so we have algorithmic technology on the backend as well. For example, we can use Baynesian Averages to ensure that votes well outside the mean are weighed less and thereby lessen the impact of gaming. Not all of this is developed yet, but as the site grows, we’ll have to pay more and more attention to these issues.

@Imran thanks for the great review. We have a Loy of work to do and there are a lot of exciting features to come. Pictures are definately on the way, and we are also putting together a NewsCred community advisory board made up of some amazing international journalists as well as passionate users. Keep an eye out for that. Finally, a big welcome to all our new users coming from startupmeme!