Well, if you had your own friends list in front of you with some tickyboxes or radio buttons before hitting 'go', you'd have the option. And as more people do this, the network would become more accurate. (Although you would need to store user's preferences somewhere...)
The big pool o' nodes is a definite bonus, but the effect of unweighted trust is that the system tends to recommend users that are totally obvious to anyone that's seen their friends' friends lists, but that are omitted from their own for social reasons. (Such as being a complete idiot, f'rinstance.) So the drop in elegance would give a great increase in utility...
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Date: 2003-07-31 02:30 am (UTC)The big pool o' nodes is a definite bonus, but the effect of unweighted trust is that the system tends to recommend users that are totally obvious to anyone that's seen their friends' friends lists, but that are omitted from their own for social reasons. (Such as being a complete idiot, f'rinstance.) So the drop in elegance would give a great increase in utility...