trust-metrics-and-flow-networks

To Read: Trust Metric wikipedia

Raph Levien’s paper on trust in distributed social networks / maximum network flow: [[raph-levien-maximum-flow-advogato.pdf]]

rchain’s trust thing for bounties: https://github.com/dckc/rchain-dbr/tree/master/trust_sync

https://github.com/rchain/bounties/wiki/Trust-Ratings

Q: User Foo is certified but I think he’s a [moron | republican | democrat | witch | Microsoft employee | other despised class of person]. Doesn’t that mean the trust metric is broken?

A: No, the purpose of the trust metric is to certify that a given user account on Advogato is known by the Advogato community to actually belong to the individual who claims it and is known to be a member of the free software and open source community. The user may be an crank, annoying, or of a political persuasion that you don’t agree with. What the trust metric attempts to guarantee is that they really are who they say they are and that they are a member of the free software community in some sense. The particular certification level (e.g. apprentice, journeyer, master) also gives a hint at the reputation the person holds within the community.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170718151006/http://www.advogato.org/faq.html

rchain trust metric system slidedeck

http://wiki.c2.com/?CapacityConstrainedFlowNetwork

“failures” of advogato discussion


See:

  • [[quartus|Meigora discussion]]