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Reference Advogato.com for trust metrics
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Myk: one possible defense against the gaming of user ratings is to allow users to identify others they trust (à la social networking sites) and then weight user ratings according to the length and strength of the trust chains which link them to a set of seed users whom we consider eminently trustworthy.
Myk: one possible defense against the gaming of user ratings is to allow users to identify others they trust (à la social networking sites) and then weight user ratings according to the length and strength of the trust chains which link them to a set of seed users whom we consider eminently trustworthy.
EE: This kind of trust network has been investigated by Advogato.com; it seems to work fairly well.  There's a deeper description of algorithms for it there.


== shaverthoughts(tm) ==
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