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A hosted database that would store user generated scores of other peoples trustworthiness, friendliness, and a profile. This information could be publicly shared, in whole or in part, to allow the system to suggest the trustworthiness of unknown people generated algorithmically from the ratings of known
people and your relation to them. The suggested amount of trust / friendliness would be different for each user in relation to the user's own personally generated scores.
A client, connected to the database, could monitor a web browser, instant messenger, email client or other communication program for user names and other identification. Depending on the medium the client would provide information on the person's relationship to you, a link to their profile and allow you to add and annotate information.
Because different people may share the same user name on different services / forums the database would store the user name along with the service or URL it came from.
ex: Jhon@aim, Jhon@slashdot.org, etc...
The system would allow you to connect user names to each other and to profiles so that the trust rating could be shared across the different names. The connections you made could also be shared.
ex: Bill1010@yahoo is somename@aim is random@slashdot.org
The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms (PDF)
http://www.google.c...44NS_vg5ed8VU-lWfGg
Eric J Friedman (Rutgers), Paul Resnick (U Michigan) [jutta, Jan 24 2008]
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Give me 50 cents or I'll vote down your metric.. Give me a dollar and I'll vote you up. For $50,000, I can offer a full 50,000 positive votes from my voting farm in China |
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Give me 50 cents for every new social networking site that contains some variation of this. |
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This is a harder problem than it seems. See, for example, "The social cost of cheap pseudonyms." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10: 173-199 |
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