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97 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar \ parent \ on: The Math Behind SN's Web of Trust meta
I know k00b told me that trust can't be negative. I'm also pretty sure he said that trust scores only ever increase.
Maybe the outlawing thing doesn't make sense, since that's supposed to be for people who post stuff that tends to get downzapped, rather than people who zap antagonistically to the rest of us.
Ah, I think that's right. Trust can't get negative because of a post-processing step in which the final trust scores are normalized between 0 and 1. I think the raw, unnormalized trust scores could get negative though.
I don't know about trust scores only ever increasing though. I don't think I see that from the code.
If you're interested in some of these details, here's a link to the github discussion that I started about this.
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Cool, I'll check it out.
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Interesting discussion. Most of those points seem pretty easy to fix. I like the idea of grounding it all in a behavioral model.
The point about long histories is interesting to me. I think your suggestion about only including items that both stackers are probably aware of would help a lot. Otherwise, my trust with new users (and theirs with me) will be weird.
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