On Jeudi, nov 13, 2003, at 10:10 Europe/Zurich, Cees de Groot wrote:

> 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.

Ok this is a really nice principle then I will play the game.
>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Cees de Groot               http://www.tric.nl     <cg at tric.nl>
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