I've accomplished everything I've done without a consensus. I look up what I want and read all sides. I've never nor will trust another's opinion on a subject. A trust score is just another worthless waste of time that represents nothing valid in reality.
Twitter has just launched something similar and is only used to silence voices. While your idea may be a bit different, I feel it will be abused or cause the masses to limit their research. This will continue the trend of laziness tech has brought about and even cause relevant info to be skipped over, because it isn't popular enough.
This could even be used to target users similar to targeted adds with info. Freedom lovers find this to be an overreach and creepy. It could also be used to target and smear info and ppl.
Hive needs to become decentralized. Not only won't this bring us there, wasting time on such a thing will make sure it never becomes decentralized, but surely will slow down that process.
RE: Modeling information in an information rating system