[ratings]
For a market-driven system to emerge, we're going to have to have one or both of two things: A. Raters being paid by the people who post web pages. Not likely. B. Raters being paid by the people who get the ratings. More likely. Neither the RSAC or SafeSurf systems does either of these. -Allen
ug. I see that "market driven" didn't make a lot of sense the way I used it. I was not talking about money. I was using it in the sense of "third-party ratings" vs. "self-ratings". maybe the latter terminology is better. I'd like to point out that market-driven systems, in the sense you use of the economy supporting the creation of the ratings, already exist in cyberspace. examples: 1. point communications top 5%. people effectively pay this company to find the "cool web sites" by buying their book or whatever. 2. surfwatch. as I understand it they have already rated many sites out there on the internet and are using a proprietary system that mimics a rating server. people are essentially paying for them to rate web sites through the purchase price of the software. other examples probably exist.