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I'd call myself a power-user on Credder, but when will there be an iOS app I can use?!?!?!? You could send me the Credder Daily as push notifications to pull me back into the app. Let's go!

I'd say it's crowdsourcing news consumers' trust in any given article, author, or outlet. You have to leave a very specific review, it's not just yay or nay. For example a 'Religious Bias', 'Strawman Fallacy'. Users point these out to each other and it just serves as added feedback. Then a user can decide for themselves if they still want to read the article or not. I personally don't have much trust for fact-checking organizations because of their own political biases/ownership. And they can only fact-check a couple articles a day anyway. You don't think it'd be cool to know what other readers trust or distrust when gathering news?

That's crowdsourcing the news production. Tribeworthy is post-production. It's about critiquing the news stories that get published.

Really? I think this does the opposite of outsourcing your thinking. It's giving you the tools to think critically and actually critique articles yourself. Did Yelp make you think less about how your restaurant experience was? Or do you think more now because you know you can leave your own feedback?

I hear what you're saying, but I just don't see the downside in giving news consumers a voice and way to work together. I mean, in a way isn't that what Reddit is doing? But with Tribeworthy every review follows the article, author, and outlet around online.

I hear what you're saying about creating a pre-judgment of authors and outlets, but one of the biggest problems today is that readers have no way of understanding a journalist's reputation when gathering news. But if rating the articles doesn't create an aggregate rating for authors and outlets, then no one is actually being held accountable. And if no one is being held accountable than no one will use it. You wouldn't rate dishes at a restaurant and not let the restaurant itself have a rating, right? I definitely agree that rating articles should bubble up to create an aggregate rating for the people responsible for publishing those articles. And if authors and outlets can start being held accountable for their publications, maybe they'll think twice before rushing out a story or using sensationalized/clickbaity language.