On 1/4/06, Nyenyec N nyenyec@gmail.com wrote:
Currently several tasks in Wikipedia require editor's to make a guess about the trustworthyness of other editors.
Trying to quantify this for purposes other than whether we trust their vandalism identification abilities for the purpose of RC patrol really isn't a good idea. I wasn't seriously suggesting a trust metric when I raised the term, I was just doing blue sky.
Some people are good at working human stuff out. Jayjg seems to have a knack for identifying socks. Snowspinner seeme to be good at being one step ahead of whoever is after him this time. I could list many more people with particular skills and weaknesses.
You can't quantify this stuff, and the minute you did, the system would suffer multiple breaks.