[Wikipedia-l] trust metrics

Mon Feb 16 02:02:41 UTC 2004

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Brion Vibber wrote:

> > For us, we have nothing like a 'transaction', but the system could be
> > generalized from that.  Each person could assign positive or negative
> > feedback to others.
> ...
> > 2.  Difficult to game -- it is NOT automated, so there's no way to
> > game the system by engaging in repetitive actions to score points.

> On the contrary it's very easy to game: create a bunch of sock puppet
> accounts to give each other feedback. On E-Bay you'd have to go to the
> trouble of faking some auctions to yourself, but not here...

If you do it properly, it's not this easy. Look at advogato - they use a rating
system where close to half the users can be fake, and they still won't get
credit. Instead of simple cross ratings, they use a network, and calculate from
that.

(I'm against ratings on Wikipedia.)

-- Daniel