On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:42:13PM -0600, Marlon Menezes wrote: > Individuals with larger networks on sites such as facebook etc could be given > a higher > starting reputation score as opposed to a ID that has little or no prior > history or network to back that person's identity. This will help reduce the > possibility of fraudulent posts under freshly created IDs.
The "numbers game" concerns me slightly; I don't believe a large amount of "friends" necessarily equates to a greater level of trust. Perhaps this may best be highlighted with 'spammers' on Twitter, for example (those following a large amount of people, compared with a representatively small amount of followers); or, indeed, the myspace "get as many 'friends' as you can" game. Not much help, more of a dampener on things. On the reverse, if one were to use (G|P)GP keys, and the amounts of verifications/web-of-trust there: a lot of us are really quite lazy when it comes to key-signing. About the only site with a trustworthy reputation, I would suggest, would have been LinkedIn, although, I'm not too sure I'd even stand-by that these days, as it's changed rather a lot since when *I* signed up to that. Were there to be a scheme, I think *I* would tend to go with something operating per-list, in the stack-overflow approach you're suggesting; were something that complex to be introduced; I'm lazy, and think if someone's wrong, they'll be shouted down; when people can 'prove' they're not barking mad, they're set as unmoderated. That said, for a majority of the lists I listmaster, it's a "you can post to the list, once you join, until you annoy the list(master)". And annoying the listmaster usually means spamming/posting out-of-office messages to the list, or being *exceptionally* out of tune with the rest of the list. (With MM3, I could see, perhaps, this maybe being useful as an optional plugin, mind.) -- ``Of course we are not patronising women. We are just going to explain to them, in words of one syllable, what it is all about.'' (Olga Maitland) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
