[freenet-dev] How to fix Frost

[Edgar Friendly]

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.


> Hm, can I suggest a fourth idea ?
> 
> 4) Blacklists :
> 
<SNIP>

Won't ever work.  Trying to blacklist spam will not succeed.  Look
through the mailing list archives for the huge debates related to
negative trust for more info.

> Another possibility would be a whitelist mechanism: Some people decide for the 
> others what they can see (Like IRL in sum ;). But it would be as annoying as 
> the solutions 1 to 3 for the users (probably even more).
> 

Instead of whitelisting posts, one might as well whitelist people, and
then we arrive back at the web of trust solution.

E.