[Help-gnunet] user feedback

[Darren]

Let me briefly say that this system appears to have a lot of promise.

I have read all the whitepapers, and have been running a node for several days 
now.

My experience with Fastrack (Kazaa, the former Morpheus...) & Gnutella tell me 
that, as is the case with many p2p designs, spam will be one major problem with 
this design unless a user feedback system is put in place.  This is briefly 
discussed at the end of the paper on economics.

Spammers will hijack all the most popular keywords and flood the network with 
their (probably irrellevant) content.  Unfortunatly, they will gain rank for 
sending proper replies for the content they propose to offer, since it is not 
possible to know the contents until it has been obtained.

On the other hand, were a user feedback system put into place, great care must 
be taken...since technically this is just censorship, no?  Perhaps a 'spam' 
ranking can be attached to the content somehow.  This spam ranking can be 
increased by trusted nodes that download content.  A high enough ranking would 
certainly deter unknowing people from downloading false content.  But 
safeguards are necessary here also, to prevent legitimate content from being 
falsely flagged.

Another thing I'm not quite clear on, along similar lines.  Does content 
(particularly unpopular content) disappear over time, as is the case with 
freenet?  I'm sure that was discussed in one of the white papers, and I somehow 
missed it.
-- 
Darren <address@hidden>