-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Jim Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Should just anyone be able to come to the site and add remarks > about anyone? Perhaps only honorable people should be able to do that. You reach a certain level of honor, and you can post honor remarks. This is a simplistic and probably excessively exclusionary system. A more sophisticated concept that's kind of hard to implement is to have a weighted trust factor graph with transitive closure. Whis is to say, if person A trusts person B with 0.8 confidence, and person B trusts person C with 0.5 confidence, then person A trusts person C with 0.4 confidence. (A -(.8)-> B -(.5)->C implies A-(.4)->C) In this scenario, you allow anybody to say anything about anyone, but when person A logs in, you sort the comments in decreasing order of relevance. The highest trust comments appear at the top; the lowest at the bottom, on subsequent pages, or filtered out altogether. I don't know how to handle comments of unknown validity, say from a brand new person no one has yet vouched for. Perhaps these comments could come up in a separate "newbies" list for the user's perusal and evaluation. This main problem with this system is just getting the data in. It has to be easy to use. Perhaps you use just a simple drop-down list to rate a person by "degrees" 0 - 10, corresponding to the weight factors 0.0 - 1.0. I guess this is kind of like key rings, but I've never seen a system that multiplies trust factors according to transitive closure. Regards, Patrick Chkoreff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPHEBm1A7g7bodUwLEQL1YwCgyaj4cl2JD/43hNj4KQsMQUaKRagAnA/r GDn1+m+glOhA17K+87FWspth =5xmu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
