Samuel Richter wrote:
I read some blog posts this morning on microformats and a common concern (and I feel a legitimate one) is the "scraping of hCard's from web sites for future generations of spammers." I believe that fear, if left unaddressed, will kill the microformat effort. Has there been any discussion of this?
This is certainly a problem we have encountered with FOAF, which shares a lot of characteristics with microformats. For example, the FOAF feeds on tribe.net were taken down, 'cos users didn't like having their data re-aggregated and published elsewhere (such as on explode.us). In this scenerio the user doesn't even need spammable info in their FOAF or hCard to be upset, they just don't want the suprise of seeing their data appear elsewhere without warning.
My take is that we need to create incentives that benefit users, such as the ability to say 'sure, re-post my stuff, but on the condition of x', for some plausible 'x'. Such as 'post this chunk of banner-ad html a fair % of the time too, perhaps.
cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
