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> Some members of the list know exactly what is coming next:
> 
> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/mappgins.pdf
> http://freenet.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=idea_mappings

I think we're going about the voting thing all wrong.  You're modeling the
positive reinforcement voting method, where the more votes exist, the more
likely the document is to be selected.

Two problems w/ this:

1. People are lazy.  They want their data, and may not choose to
vote.  This means that good data is harmed by lazy users

2. People can flood vote.  Nevermind that they can only propogate
those votes to their node, they can still flood vote.  

A better solution is to have people vote *against* data.  Those two angles
again:

1. People are lazy.  But people want *good* data, and are more likely
to get upset when what they get *isn't* what they wanted, and so will vote
down.

2. People can flood vote.  But if voting is down-voting, then people
cannot inflate the importance of their own bogus data.

        Scott

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