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Or, this could lead to the birth of a decentralised web-of-trust review and recommendation system. Imagine if something like this works: When a person reads a b
by cstross 15y ago
Or, this could lead to the birth of a decentralised web-of-trust review and recommendation system. Imagine if something like this works: When a person reads a book, he rates it according to his taste. He would also rate how much he "trusts" the opinion of any of his peers.
Unfortunately what you get with this system ends up looking like Amazon's reader reviews, because most readers are neither perceptive nor trained in analytical reading.
Viz: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/01/faint-praise.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/01/faint-pr...
- saljam 15y agoThat's not what I was proposing. The whole point is that you select who you trust and how much you trust them for any given subject. A random reviewer like the one on Amazon wouldn't have much influence on my rating unless I "trust" them personally, or some one I highly trust in turn highly trusts them. I'm saying trust too much now.