Re: [Bug-gnupedia]censorship

[Gary Benson]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Tom Chance wrote:

> I agree that there should be a simple way of removing
> very poor articles, and perhaps reviews/comments by
> consensus of opinion. Perhaps there should be a group
> of moderators as with /. that could have the final say
> on removing an article. Afterall, if somebody got a
> load of friends to help him/her, or just resubmitted
> the bad review many times, any article could easily be
> removed.

Have a look at http://www.advogato.org/

Advogato is "a community resource for free software developers around
the world, as well as a research testbed for work on group trust
metrics." Advogato's `trust-metric' seems quite clever as it resists
this kind of attack. See http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html for
the gory details.