Jerome Flesch wrote: > With a WoT, if you accept to read the new-comers, you accept to read the > spam. > So in the end, you risk to end with no-one reading anymore the posts from the > newbies. > Might it work to distribute the load of looking at unsigned posts to all readers? Instead of a few trusted people looking through mounds of spam to find a few newbie posts, maybe each user could get a dozen posts to filter for the community. I don't know if a random distribution or some sort of slicing method would work better, they each have their ups and downs.
> Hm, can I suggest a fourth idea ? > > 4) Blacklists : > <SNIP> Won't ever work. Trying to blacklist spam will not succeed. Look through the mailing list archives for the huge debates related to negative trust for more info. > Another possibility would be a whitelist mechanism: Some people decide for > the > others what they can see (Like IRL in sum ;). But it would be as annoying as > the solutions 1 to 3 for the users (probably even more). > Instead of whitelisting posts, one might as well whitelist people, and then we arrive back at the web of trust solution. E. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
