[freenet-dev] How to fix Frost

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 21:50, Colin Davis wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but what if you post on one board and lurk on another?
> 
> 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?
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