[drcongo]

I actually built this once, a long time ago for a very bizarre social network project. I visualised it as a mesh where individuals were the points where the threads met, and as someone's trust level rose, it would pull up the trust levels of those directly connected, and to a lesser degree those connected to them - picture a trawler fishing net and lifting one of the points where the threads meet. Similarly, a user whose trust lowered over time would pull their connections down with them. Sadly I never got to see it at the scale it needed to become useful as the project's funding went sideways.

[icoder]

Yeah building something like this is not a weekend project, getting enough traction for it to make sense is another orders of magnitude beyond that.

I like the idea of one's trust to leverage that of those around them. This may make it more feasible to ask some 'effort' for the trust gain (as a means to discourage duplicate 'personas' for a single human), as that can ripple outward.

[all2]

How would 'trust' manifest? A karma system?

How are individuals in the network linked? Just comments on comments? Or something different?

[drcongo]

The system I built it for was invite only so the mesh was self-building, and yeah, there was a karma-like system that affected the trust levels, which in turn then gave users extra privileges such as more invites. Most of this was hidden from the users to make it slightly less exploitable, though if it had ever reached any kind of scale I'd imagine some users would work out ways to game it.