Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 21:23, Edgar Friendly wrote: >> 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. > > Hashcash/thinkcash puzzles set by each user approximate this. The difficulty > could automatically escalate over multiple posts, and de-escalate over time. Do you suggest that each established user create *cash puzzles, and new posters choose one or many of these puzzles to solve in order to get through untrusted/unknown-user-blocking so they can start to earn trust?
I don't get your point about difficulty of puzzles, they'd go by the wayside once a person entered the web of trust, no? E. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
