On Wednesday 22 August 2007 21:50, Colin Davis wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but if you're a lurker, no one would see posts by > you, so they wouldn't trust you, so your ratings wouldn't do any good.
Sure, but what if you post on one board and lurk on another? > > Ratings only work if they're trusted, or hashcashed.. Else, anonymous > ratings could be generated alongside the spam. > > > > > Edgar Friendly wrote: > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> So the problem is that each poster would have to include in their ratings list > >> information for boards other than the ones they've posted to? Arguably that's > >> insecure anyway, you should be able to lurk on a board without giving it > >> away, so we should not post info for boards that you haven't (recently?) > >> posted on. > > > > > > That's another solution, but we lose out on the rating information of > > lurking users. i.e. I haven't said anything useful on the frost board > > [freenet], but I read it, and rate users there. Should my ratings for > > that board not go towards the collective Web of Trust? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070822/c6a43a0c/attachment.pgp>
