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

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Ah, right - the weighting makes sense, actually!

(I have read the full description... I just didn't get it. Sorry, dear.)

As to which is more accurate... It's tricky to say - your version is more noticably skewed by the cardboards than the LJ on (becuase they tend to have small friends lists, I guess).

Most of the people on them I know of. But I'm not entirely sure whether I would friend them, becuase I don't know them! Some of them are people I've deliberately not friended, but that's the same on both lists.

Sorry - not a lot of help, is it?