On 29/10/13 15:05, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> I understand the need to do downsides, but this seems like a very
> harsh penalty. It would be easy to vouch for someone at some point,
> and at some point 5 years in the future, that someone does something
> bad and gets banned. Is it still fair for the original vouching person
> to be penalized for that?

Good point. Perhaps the connection should expire after a year.

> It seems like timeliness of the vouching must play a role here. The
> scheme I just came up with is, once you get 2 people to vouch for you,
> you get 4 points to vouch with for others (i.e. limiting the amount of
> vouches you can give out, adding some cost to vouching). But, vouches
> deteriorate over time, so after, say, a year, your 2 initial vouches
> are worth less than 1.0, and your access gets revoked unless you find
> some people to vouch for you again. Since people may migrate to
> different areas of the community, it may make sense to have other
> people vouch for you this time compared to last time.

That seems more complex than the above suggestion. Do you think simply
disconnecting voucher and vouchee after a year (i.e. after that, you
stand on your own two feet) would work?

Gerv


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