On 3/11/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Editors who've been around for a while do this
already. I know which
editors I can trust; what their strengths and weaknesses are; who
tends to engage in OR; who's great at citing sources; whose edits
never need to be checked.
Then that seems like knowledge worth sharing.
Formalizing this wouldn't work, because you'd
get a ton of editors
adding others to their "web of trust" on the basis of agreeing with
their POV alone.
Then those editors' trust databases would be less useful than those of
others -- itself an indication of lower reliability. I think that
perhaps one could also capture a reasonable amount of this natural
tendency with a fourth dimension, "people I like".
Who's going to decide whose "web of
trust" can be
trusted?
Nobody.
Which gets me back to the original question: who is
going to
do the verifying?
Everyone.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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