Reciprocal Score Voting: Difference between revisions
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RSV suffers from a "reverse spoiler effect" in which a large faction may lose by not supporting a smaller faction. This can be a major problem when the smaller faction is a group with fringe or too radical beliefs compared to the main faction.
Since such fringe groups would likely be universally hated by every other faction, one way to partially address this is to additionally adjust the reciprocity
This way, sufficiently fringe factions largely give asymmetric support towards more mainstream factions, making reciprocation with them less necessary. Between similar largely acceptable factions, which would receive similar overall mean scores, the effect cancels out and RSV proceeds as normal.
Therefore, by taking into account mutual reciprocation as well as overall ratings RSV can be made to promote reciprocation only between factions that have similar levels of overall support.
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