PS: Raph is the one who later created avogato, with a simpler reputation system. I can't recall if he talks about these schemes in his writings on reputation. Adam On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Sunder wrote: | | Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :) | | I haven't checked in any meaningful way, but that thread doesn't seem to | have any replies from Ralph... Do you recall any details as to what would | cause oscillations? Would be interesting to explore this. | | I expect that having a way to prove collusion by checking who praises | whom, etc. would likely avoid such problems. As would I suppose personal | observation of current behavior. | | Say for instance Mr. Measels manages to accumulate quite a large sum of | positive repcap, if he spews a bunch of the lame ass CJ knockoff messages, | I suspect most people would adjust their cached repcap's of him pretty | quickly - At least I would. (CJ did/does write kooky messages, but at | least they're funny...) | | | ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- | + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ | \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ | <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ | /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ | + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. | --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ | | On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Adam Shostack wrote: | | > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Sunder wrote: | > | | > | Say Tim has a repcap of 600, say Declan has 500, and Sandy has 400. Then | > | I add +1 * 500/X from Declan's repcap and +1 *400/X to Tim's repcap, so | > | now my cache of Tim's repcap might jump to 620. | > | > Interesting idea. I proposed something very similar in | > http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/09/msg00313.html Raph | > demonstrated a bit later that the system could be forced into | > oscilation and had other problems, although that might have been in | > person, not on list. | > | > Adam | > | > -- | > Imminent death of the list predicted. Film already in the | > archives, 11/95. | > | > | > | > -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume