Eugen Leitl writes: > If I'm a node in a web of trust (FOAF is a human), prestige will > percolate through it completely. That way I can color a whole > domain with a nonboolean trust hue, while a domain of fakers will > have only very few connections (through compromises, or human > mistakes), which will rapidly sealed, once actually used to do > something to lower their prestige ("I signed the key of a spammer, > please kill me now").
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