Brion wrote: Yes - that would be bad. Here is a simple solution that goes along with what I thought trust metrics would do: There are a bunch of people I trust on Wikipedia - I never check their edits for vandalism, bad edits, or overt POV because, in my experience, they have very rarely if ever done any of those things. There are others who I trust in the same way expect in some categories and on particular articles. And then there are the people who I don't trust at all. What I would like is the ability to say that I trust user x. Presto! Edits by user x are either no longer displayed in a special recent changes list that only I can see or their edits are turned into small gray text on my regular RC list (I like this second option better). Once a category system is up and running I would like to refine that for some users (who I do not trust only when they edit certain categories of articles). I would also like the ability to explicitly say that I don't trust somebody - their edits on RC would be bolded. Then to create a web of trust I would like to tell MediaWiki that I trust the opinions of user x. Presto! Any edits by a user on user x's white list will be either removed from my special RC list or made small and grayed out on my regular RC list (and watchlist for that matter). That would prevent any incentive to create sock puppets since my selections only affect what *I* see and what the people who trust my judgment see (if they set their preferences accordingly). -- mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html