From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2008 - 13:58:35 MDT
--- zakolus zahn <zakolus@gmail.com> wrote:
> And now to fix my own typos, I mean reputation, and to clairfy.. anonymous
> users can submit rep, through a captcha, but, it won't have any effect on
> the registered user market, which basically is basically what will be
> displayed.. or we can keep anonymous users out all together.. although some
> people may wish to not show who they are.. and therefore they can submit rep
> as "anonymous" and prevent anyone from knowing who sent that rep, so that
> people won't seek revenge.
This is probably off topic, but by definition a CAPTCHA would be useless
against AI.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:24 PM, zakolus zahn <zakolus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I rarely ever reply to this mailing list.. but, I'll give it a go..
> >
> > I have read Charles Stross's Accelerando, and I generally loved it, and to
> > me, the idea of a reuptation market can be good, if we can keep negative
> > spammers from the system.. ie... Somebody doesn't like said person here,
> > they set up a spam bot with proxies and user registration and set to work
> on
> > lowering a persons Rep and raising their own.. It could be combated,
> > potentially, by setting up higher-end captchas on both Rep submission and
> > account registration, and have a place for none-registered anonymous
> users,
> > veruses verified regular users..
> >
> > also, a good API could be built around the digg.com "digg it" idea, except
> > that on every page there is a top 10, of who is the highest rated.. if you
> > wish I can work on an html/php combination that would be a test protocol..
> >
> > Thanks - Zakolus
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Diego Navarro <the.electric.me@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I have drafted out a modest proposal.
> > >
> > > http://dayvancowboy.org/agalmos
> > >
> > > Not spammy, I promise. Just a simple HTML page. No profit, I'd like to
> > > see it discussed.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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