Sounds quite promising, look forward to seeing your algorithms take on professional astro-turfers (human or bot) who may have algorithmic assistance.

This 1997 essay on collaborative filtering has the baggage of an "extropian" perspective, from Sasha Chislenko (RIP). Some of the social speculation remains relevant, http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/ACF.html

This was in the early days of ACF, http://www.strategy-business.com/article/19707?gko=acda4