28 Oct 2006 rillian   » (Master)

Hooray, Advogato has been saved. Thanks StevenRainwater.

nutella, certs are entirely one way, and they're always a positive assertion. The idea is that trust flows along certification links, so a spammer can create as many accounts as they want, but unless a significant number of people already in the trusted group can be pursuaded to certify those accounts, they will still be cut off because they look like an island.

So fake accounts making some random certs of real accounts makes the fake accounts look a little less fake, but actually hurts their chances of being trusted. As long as most people cert based on their knowledge of another person's work, the trust metric will continue to work.

All this spam cleanup is just about cleaning up the pool of untrusted user accounts, and preventing spreading google juice where it doesn't belong.

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