On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
of reward for GOOD behavior. Suppose, for example, we had a system where other users could rate our contributions, and the more positive your cumulative rating, the less scrutiny your edits are likely to receive from vandal-watchers.
I think an automated system like that is going to be vulnerable to people working out ways to do it. Another possibility is to use a web of trust, that is each user builds a list of users that they personally trust on which they could include users directly (saying I trust this user) or indirectly (I trust everyone who user X trusts), and then people could filter recent changes removing only those that they trust.
The obvious downside is that it would take a lot of processing which is probably something we want to avoid at least in the immediate future.
Imran