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by kloch 1742 days ago
What do you mean by junk? Spam and Abuse, or scientific papers that the reviewer simply doesn't like?
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Well, as anyone can and will publish, it will be stuffed with junk, porn, trash of all sorts, so my plan was to implement a filter to ignore any data published outside of one’s WOT.

Furthermore, a user searching for “reviewed” data and papers would normally filter for items with enough “endorsement” metadata items signed by known WOT actors.

I haven’t figured a mechanism to prevent “review rings”, although being totally transparent it should be easy to spot them.