Try my new trust metric!

[ciphergoth]

I have implemented my new trust metric, and applied it (fairly crudely) to LiveJournal friends lists as an experiment. The result is a tool that tells you who is "closest" to your friends list who isn't actually on it, like "popwithfriends" but more sophisticated.

Who is closest to your friends list?

Let me know how plausible the results seem to you.

Update: Shit, I've broken the machine it was running on. Back later when I've made it check the load average before running the metric... Update: Back again now, with a rate limiter to keep the load average reasonable. Gosh, hadn't expected such popularity!

Comments

[between-names.livejournal.com]

I found the link through my friendsfriends. It matched the popwithfriends thing about 85%, and, funnily enough, most of the people I'd heard of and had either de-friended at some point, or had no interest in friending.

Interesting tool, though.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Found on a link while adding Blue Zahl to my friends list, from one of Zahl's friends.

Very interesting. I've corrected some ommissions in my friends list as well.

And of course the comments from folks saying things somewhat to the effect of "It should know when I'm not speaking to someone" are hilarious.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

And of course the comments from folks saying things somewhat to the effect of "It should know when I'm not speaking to someone" are hilarious.

Thank-you! I keep thinking "maybe I should explain myself better", but actually some people are beyond explaining to...

[thisheartx.livejournal.com]

i like it. i just wish it would work for me. =***(

[ex-sandcat309.livejournal.com]

I can't get it to work

[markelle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I've been trying for a couple of days to use it and I keep getting this message:

"Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for markelle. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment! Please try again later."

[xdipsomaniacx.livejournal.com]

wow, that thing is pretty damned cool. I recognized some people from looking at LJ friends pages and then looking at their friends. Some I didn't recognize, but it makes me wonder if they're interesting people.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Found due to brian1789's mention of it. Cant say how I like it 'cause due to load I couldn't get results. Oh well.

[xivegotagun.livejournal.com]

how does it work?

[pornography.livejournal.com]

This is one great little trust-metric-thingy, with amazing results ;) I've spoken to at least half the people on that list already *runs off to friend them all*

[ruggels.livejournal.com]

I got a link to it from here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/yelth/70369.html

And for my results, I know of most of the folsk on my results. There is no one on the list I actively dislike, but they are folks who I just never added, because I didn't know them well enough or didn't like their artwork, or have a serious political opposition to their views/lifestyle, and saw no reason to add them to aincrease my bloodpressure, or think less of them at social gatherings.

It looks like it sorts by the most common names found on your friend's friends lists, that aren't on yours. But I have yet to read the explanation.

Interesting to say the least.

Scott

[oi-attack.livejournal.com]

WELL IT'S MAKING ME REALLY ANGRY BECAUSE IT WON'T WORK.
and haha wow you've gotten a lot of feedback on this shit.

[amelinda.livejournal.com]

there were 3 or maybe 4 people on my list who i had met in real life. i have maybe two or three friends listed that are exclusively known from livejournal and a lot of their friends ended up on my generated list. i had at least 5 communities also pop up in my list (two of which being in my top three).

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

It doesn't work for me. Its says the server load is too high! Its starting to become irritating.

[kevinjdog.livejournal.com]

Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for kevinjdog. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment! Please try again later.

Thanks anyway.

[ciceronianus.livejournal.com]

I found the link here (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank) in one of the posts.

Thought it was fantastic - thank you :)

[vickionline.livejournal.com]

got the link from anhedonia_cmplx

[mdlbear]

Fascinating. Found it on a friend's page, of course. Near as I can tell almost everyone on the list is somebody I know or belongs to a community I know about.

[jaelafae.livejournal.com]

LOVE IT! Way super spiffy keen indeed ;) thank you for sharing!

[complex-element.livejournal.com]

That was cool. I found it from a friend's page. I was wondering, is there anyway you can make something like that so you can find people with the most similar interest matches???

[sawahbean.livejournal.com]

There used to be a specific LJ tool that existed for that... I don't know what happened to it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cs/]

Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for panxer. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment! Please try again later.

grr

[ragingbutterfly.livejournal.com]

i've gotten that every time i've tried it today. :(

[crazyxdreamer.livejournal.com]

I've had a simalar problem alot.

Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for crazydreamer. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment! Please try again later.

[dancing-star.livejournal.com]

I have seen just about everyone on my list, either comment or in random clicking through friends lists, and the communities that showed up are ones I am very likely to be interested in or know about and haven't joined.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Some of the top results are people who have only one or two friends connections themselves, in one case the cat of someone who only has the two owners on their list. More independent routes of trust should be worth more than that, I'd think.

Not sure you can do much about this, but there's also communities on the list.

[hlu.livejournal.com]

TrustFlow trust metric

Created by ciphergoth, see trustmetrics for details.

Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for hlu. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment! Please try again later.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed your trust metric. It took a while to load up, but it was worth the wait. Some of the people it turned up are non-friends whom I read sometimes, but several people seemed to be non-friends with whom I have neither friends nor any particular interests in common. it's all curious to me, and fun, and thanks for building the engine.