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mmn (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 18:45:54 CET mmn I'm wondering if a globally accessible "silence list" would be good for !gnusocial - it would:
1. Let nodes interchange silence lists ("I trust the judgement of site X to only silence those who'd be silenced here as well")
2. Make it more obvious for remote users (that aren't admins) who have trouble reaching other nodes if they are blocked of if there's just a bug.
Are there any downsides (privacy, easier for spambots...) to this idea?-
mcscx2old is still alive (famous last words) (mcscx2old)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:20:56 CET mcscx2old is still alive (famous last words) @mmn !Freenet's FMS uses a WebOfTrust rating system. Users can downvote annoying users. Important: users decide for themselves if they still want to be shown the posts of low-rated users. Roland Häder likes this. -
mcscx2old is still alive (famous last words) (mcscx2old)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:24:11 CET mcscx2old is still alive (famous last words) @mmn downside to a global silence/block list: this might be called platform-wide censorship. Even if you setup your own instance all other instances that use the global list might filter your posts Roland Häder likes this. -
Roland Häder (roland)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:42:52 CET Roland Häder @mmn @mcscx2 And even a #WoT can be missused for "censoring", e.g. that to much people vote that person down. And maybe government agencies or from the "industries" people may step forward asking to block (like #DMCA-takedown) certain users globally. I think the network will become then vulnerable to such attacks. majestyx likes this. -
Marcus Maria (marcus)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:47:03 CET Marcus Maria What are you trying to achieve? I am not a big fan of rating systems (even not voting like reddit). If it's about blocking spammers, I would simply add an individual per-user option to mute/block specific persons. No global whitelist/blacklist or such. -
Roland Häder (roland)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:48:18 CET Roland Häder @marcus this was not my idea and I think you mean @mmn? -
mmn (mmn)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2015 19:52:51 CET mmn It wouldn't be a global list. It'd be unique per instance, and each instance would manually have to add their preferred lists with silenced users. Starting a new instance would create new users, unknown to the existing lists, which would manually have to be added to any site's trusted lists before a blocking would be in effect. What I'm thinking is that if the network works "as it should", i.e. small instances where all users know or at least has…
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