[freenet-dev] How to fix Frost

[Colin Davis]

Forgive my ignorance, but if you're a lurker, no one would see posts by 
you, so they wouldn't trust you, so your ratings wouldn't do any good.

Ratings only work if they're trusted, or hashcashed.. Else, anonymous 
ratings could be generated alongside the spam.




Edgar Friendly wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> So the problem is that each poster would have to include in their ratings list 
>> information for boards other than the ones they've posted to? Arguably that's 
>> insecure anyway, you should be able to lurk on a board without giving it 
>> away, so we should not post info for boards that you haven't (recently?) 
>> posted on.
> 
> 
> That's another solution, but we lose out on the rating information of
> lurking users.  i.e. I haven't said anything useful on the frost board
> [freenet], but I read it, and rate users there.  Should my ratings for
> that board not go towards the collective Web of Trust?
> 
> E.
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