Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Can you clarify this for me. What is there to prevent me from checking a particular snippet of text that has been edited by only one person, and seeing that it is a specific hue, and basing my evaluation of his or her trust metric on that hue?
To be obscured would it not be necessary to only colour text that has been edited by multiple editors, thus limiting the usefulness?
It's obscured in the same way that edit counts are obscured, i.e. potentially unsuccessfully.
I have not yet changed back to thinking this may not be useful, but I think we need more information on the limitations and possible further improvements that can be made to it. Is there a fuller description of the underlying formula/algorithm somewhere?
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/07/wikiwww2007.pdf
-- Tim Starling