Reading List (for the umpteenth time....)

[James A. Donald]

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At 06:15 PM 4/15/2001 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Some of the cypherpunks implications were that we all saw
>reputation systems as a goal that Really Made Sense,
>but also that turn out to be much harder to implement,
>even on non-fictional paper, than to describe in fiction.
>What kinds of algorithms do you use?  How do people outfox them?
>How do you deal with not only the real Detweilers,
>but with people using the kinds of pseudonym hacks that
>Detweiler was constantly ranting against, such as creating a
>bunch of pseudonyms that all give each other positive ratings
>and positive reviews of each others' articles,
>to create a bunch of reputation capital that's undeserved
>and can later be burned if needed.

Detweiler repeatedly attempted that hack in several different newsgroups
and mailing lists, and repeatedly failed.   Everyone would come to the
conclusion that he was a loon, and that anyone who agreed with him was
either a tentacle or a fellow loon.


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