ducasse  <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> said:
>I tried but what is the point of that?
>How can we put information to external information (links), how can we 
>post.
You can only post if you're certified beyond 'observer' (which you are
at the moment) - which is one of the points behind the trust metrics
stuff (the other one being a helper in validating the 'importance',
'weight', whatever of stuff that gets posted, especially for outsiders).

>It ooks to me like a game to discern who is the best considered. 
>
No, it's certainly not a race to all become 'Master' as soon as
possible. The trust metric is just an alternatives to passwords. The
idea is that you implicitely trust people with various 'ranks' (for want
of a better word) to various levels. We may, or may not, use this later
on to hand out rights to SM, Wiki's, whatever, but for the time being I
think of it mostly as a fun community-site-cum-soapbox. 

OBTW: People have kept asking me 'how', 'what', etcetera. Short one:
- http://www.advogato.org/ is the original site, I'm using that code;
- the code is a C Apache module (mod_virgule);
- all data is stored in basic XML format on-disk, so readily
  transportable to anything we may cook up in Squeak if we feel like it. 
  The biggest thing would be the network flow algorithm, which involves
  around 1400 lines of C code as far as I can tell.

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