-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- It's silly to conflate ratings of people with ratings of people's opinions with ratings of people's ratings of etc. Some of the people I work with have awful opinions on politics, other people, music, movies, books, and food, but great opinions on computer hardware, algorithms and programming languages. But their ratings as people are generally very high. (Insert inaccurate but amusing joke to the effect that if someone has good taste in restaurants they are likely to have poor taste in video cards, or some such.) Check out Firefly (www.ffly.com). (Cpunk comment: they only track your ratings by nym, no True Name required.) Firefly has the "if I agreed with Bob a lot in the past on this subject, I'll probably agree with him again" heuristic. It appears to be a pretty ugly heuristic when applied to me. Ffly keeps trying to suggest music which is in the same _genre_ as music I have previously recommended, but what I am interested is music that is similarly _good_. My tastes don't correspond well to genres. But this is a mere anecdotal impression. Give it a spin. I wrote in the suggestion box that they add meta-ratings (especially ratings on the little "movie reviews" submitted by other FFly users). Some guy wrote back (same day!) that they were planning on it. Regards, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMkkjQkjbHy8sKZitAQF5wAL/WgD5iPOR7RtCc5SNgLMGqKUJqHLiS7bM XItX4p8Z1Uri5DZgAUoOCDZ7iEoP3rleDBThGq3rFG8y6I9tbFueC00TRwoft5rb fR7pqeaDj2AzcSt4rYCi67ucsW4wQi1C =rL1w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----