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The return of Advogato. If you weren't around for it, it had a certification system like what you describe, so the stuff on it was pretty good. After a while,
by throwaway81523 8mo ago
The return of Advogato. If you weren't around for it, it had a certification system like what you describe, so the stuff on it was pretty good. After a while, spammers figured out that it had very high search engine placement because of its quality, and that pretty much ruined it. It's gone now.
- follower 8mo agoFor historical context, the Advogato site in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o... Background on the "trust metric" implemented on the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000542/https://advogato.org/trust-metric.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000542/https://advogato.... Apparently my account on the site is/was now more than a quarter of a century old... Gonna try to avoid thinking on that too deeply. :D There's been a non-zero number of occasions since that time where I've observed situations that mirror the trust-based challenges Advogato sought to solve. It is perhaps telling that as prescient as Raph's work on trust metrics was he later moved on to the notoriously challenging realm of font rendering--presumably because it seemed more tractable. :D