Michael Rogers wrote: > 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. > Maybe a good list of people to choose from could simply be the people that user trusts to be good posters. This would take care of the sybil problem, unless the user decided to trust a sybil... hmmm, that could get ugly, with bots copying real users' posts with different PK identities... I guess Frost could detect the duplicate posts and filter the second one, unless the spammers mutated the original post slightly... ick, that's a path better not traveled.
One worrisome idea in what you've written is this idea of "must be visible to a lot of people". The potential for fragmentation must be kept low, with real people that consistently post having trust from nearly the whole community, and spammers having no trust from this community. I can't see an easy answer to this, but I want to point this out as a potential problem for Frost (while it has a small to medium-size community. If it gets the size of usenet... eep.) Lastly, the idea of people having to read the boards for a while before they post seems good (make sure they don't just barge into the community, but understand a bit more what's acceptable). Unlike freenet/fproxy, where the goal is to get freesites downloaded as soon after installation as possible, posting to frost seems like something that people could wait a few days for. E.
