[Foundation-l] On hard-to-read usernames

[David Gerard]

On 24/12/06, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at 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.