Re: [Bug-gnupedia] RE: Bug-gnupedia digest, Vol 1 #9 - 12 msgs

[Mike Warren]

"Paul Jones" <address@hidden> writes:

> possibly a rating system that allows for self/local censorship?

Perhaps each user could say to the system, ``I trust these reviewers:
x, y, and z''. Then, if those reviewers also trust other reviewers,
the user could ask to see only ``trusted'' entries if she wishes.

The system could build up an aggregate rating of each article based on
a number of criteria (including the above ``trust''), and the user
could select a cut-off rating which would eliminate articles below
that level.

This could be further complicated in a number of ways: by degrading
the trust ratings such that reviewers 1 or 2 degrees away from the
user count more towards the article's final rating than reviewers 5 or
6 degrees away; or by having reviewers or authors with more total
``trust'' grant articles they rate more weighting in the final
aggregate rating of the article.

I'm sure I can come up with more complications given time ;)

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