Building a trust system into a social app
jfarmer: "but giving users unrestricted ability to input content would quickly fill the site with noise"Would it?  Have you tested it?  How do you know?"I need to have a good way to identify not only spammers and users who might try to game the system, but users who may inadvertently put in noise/bad data."Do you really need it?  What's the worst that happens if you leave it out?  What's the best?  What's the likelihood of each?  What data do you base that calculation on?"Likewise, I also want both the system and other users to be able to implicitly and explicitly recognize those users that should be trusted, based on the value of the content they have submitted."Sounds complicated.  Why do you "need" to solve this problem?  Do you even know it's a problem yet?I'd put the simplest product in front of users and see what happens.  Maybe you won't have to build your mega-meta-trust-network after all.  That seems like a win.