Daniel Mayer wrote:

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wote:

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There is very serious problem with this approach - the trust is not transitive at all, especially wrt POV issues.

Yeah it is - did you not read the part where I stated that users can trust by proxy? That makes it transitive without any possibility of people gaming the system through sock puppets.

-- mav

Could I just clarify the model you are proposing. Do you grey out in RC:

a) All the people on "Mav's Trusted Editors" list and all the people on "X's Trusted Editors" where X runs through "People Who Mav Trusts to Trust Good Editors" or

b) All the people on "Mav's Trusted Editors" list, all the people on that list' trusted editors lists, all the people on those lists trusted editors listed, and so on, recursively.

a) I like as an idea. Each user has two lists "Trusted Editors" and "Trusted Delegates" (the second is likely much shorter than the first)

b) has some sort of transitivity property, but to my mind is a much more complicated and less useful thing than a). You'd end up trusting virtually everyone but through some route or other. Due to this you'd to have some sort of "trust for categories" because we know that plenty of good editors make bad edits when they not editing on a subject they know much about. How that "category-trust" meshes in with transitivity, I don't know.

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