On 24/12/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A user can be associated with metrics that indicate
the status of a user ..
this can have several attributes, amounts of positive contributions, the
status on other projects like admin/bureaucrat etc. This will provide the
information people say they need; a clue as to if someone can be trusted to
do good.
It's not clear why processing users' contributions by machine is less
dehumanising than allowing display of their user-ID number.
Also, mechanical processing of contributions leads to a gameable
system which *will* then be gamed.
- d.