On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Matthew Toseland
<t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 May 2009 10:43:09 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> On Friday, 22. May 2009 23:10:42 Mike Bush wrote:
>> > I have been watching this debate an I was wondering whether it could
>> > help to have 2 sets of trust values for each identity in a trust list,
>> > this could mean you could mark an identity as spamming or that I don't
>> > want to see these posts again as i find them objectionable.
>>
>> This is what Credence did in the end for spam detection on Gnutella, so it
>> might fit the human psyche :)
>>
>> People got the option to say "that's bad quality or misleading", "I don't 
>> like
>> it" or "that's spam".
>>
>> For messages that could be
>>
>> * "that ID posts spam"
>> * "that ID posts crap"
>>
>> The first can easily be reviewed, the second is subjective. That would give a
>> soft group censorship option, but give the useful spam detection to everyone.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Arne
>>
>> PS: Yes, I mostly just tried to clarify Mikes post for me. I hope the mail's
>> useful to you nontheless.
>
> People will game the system, no? If they think paedophiles are scum who 
> should not be allowed to speak, and they realise that clicking "This is spam" 
> is more effective than "This is crap", they will click the former, no?

I would assume that's the normal case.  OTOH, there isn't much harm in
implementing it, and if some people use it, that would help
somewhat...  Perhaps implement, but not required for initial release?

Evan Daniel
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