On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Adam McGreggor <adam-mail...@amyl.org.uk>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:42:13PM -0600, Marlon Menezes wrote: > > Individuals with larger networks on sites such as facebook etc could be > given a higher > > starting reputation score as opposed to a ID that has little or no prior > > history or network to back that person's identity. This will help reduce > the > > possibility of fraudulent posts under freshly created IDs. > > The "numbers game" concerns me slightly; I don't believe a large > amount of "friends" necessarily equates to a greater level of trust. > > Perhaps this may best be highlighted with 'spammers' on Twitter, for > example (those following a large amount of people, compared with a > representatively small amount of followers); or, indeed, the myspace > "get as many 'friends' as you can" game. > > I think one way to get around this would be to give higher value to friends who are already on the mailing list. The real issue I am trying to address here is not identity verification, but rather, reducing the chance of a potential abuser who has been put in the moderated list, then tries to get in un-moderated under a new ID. With such a set up, it will require a lot of effort on the part of that user to generate a new friends list etc. > That said, for a majority of the lists I listmaster, it's a "you can > post to the list, once you join, until you annoy the list(master)". > > This approach, while being suitable for a low volume technical group such as this, does not work for a highly active community/social forum in which what defines what is annoying the list master is subject to interpretation. Regards, Marlon _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9