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

[GerardM]

Hoi,

On 12/24/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


The difference is that I do not mind to be associated with what I have done.
It is also exactly the type of information that helps assess if someone is
more likely to be trusted. A number has nothing to do with me.

Also, mechanical processing of contributions leads to a gameable
> system which *will* then be gamed.
>
>
> - d.


How the metrics are to be created is something that has not been discussed
at all. It is clever that you already know that it will be possible to game
it.

Thanks,
   GerardM