Edgar Friendly wrote: > How to > choose which puzzles to solve? Should a new user really be presented > with a list of 100 check-boxes to pick between? What information should > they have to make an informed decision?
The new user could read the boards for a while and decide which users were likely to be influential: a user whose messages are usually answered must be visible to a lot of people; solve that user's puzzle to become visible. Frost could even download the WoT lists and find the influential users automatically. New users shouldn't choose a puzzle to solve at random, otherwise a spammer could use a Sybil/replay attack: for each legitimate identity, create one or more Sybils with the same puzzle as the legitimate identity. When a new user solves the puzzle, use the solution to get onto the legitimate identity's WoT list. > How to expire an old puzzle and how to publish all this info on puzzles > / web of trust? An internal board receiving daily/weekly postings from > each user on their current WoT and puzzle? Sounds like a good idea. Or have a KSK for each user, similar to Frost file sharing. Cheers, Michael
