alt Hacker NewsHodgeRank is a very different beast. It is nothing like Pagerank. Its input is not a citation/link graph but a list of paired ordered preferences.
In HodgeRank the goal is to combine a large list of pairwise preferences how to obtain the most representative total order.
Yes, but the comment I replied to outlined a way of using PageRank to aggregate noisy pairwise preferences into a global order.