[CrackMonkey] Slashdot Farewell Speech

[Jeff Waugh]

> Joakim Ziegler wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, this doesn't seem to have skewed it much. Both KDE people,
> Linux and *BSD people, Perl, Python and PHP people, and yes, even Aaronl have
> achieved ratings that to me look pretty just.


Mmm. Look up http://advogato.org/person/TheGiver/ for aaronl's contribution
to Advogato. ;)

You're right though, it is very well balanced; but I think that has a lot to
do with the size of the community. Imagine if it suddenly hit Slashdot
proportions - would the seeded system work well? The distances would be
huge.


Local trust, as seen with PGP, would be much more scalable, plus you'd be
getting information *you* were interested in. Not sure how well the
calculations would fare... Perhaps VA would sponsor a Free Software
community trust metric server. ;)

- Jeff


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