[socal-piggies] - commenting/certification system

[Daniel Arbuckle]

It sounds interesting, but possibly redundant with the things that
popular blogs (e.g. slashdot) already do. I look forward to hearing
what you have to say.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:20:30AM -0800, Titus Brown wrote:
> -> Commenting + Certification? Maybe I'm being obtuse, but what's the
> -> unifying concept here?
> 
> spam.
> 
> I want to explore certification systems for other purposes -- genome
> annotation, in particular.  A commenting system is a good test case,
> though: it's a lot less work to implement, and it'd be pretty handy for
> a few things, such as collaborative annotation of the python docs.  But
> why do commenting systems need a certification system?
> 
> Well, at the moment, commenting/annotation systems (including blog
> comments) are deluged with spam and off-topic anonymous responses (a.k.a
> "spam" ;) at regular intervals.  My immediate goal is to use
> a certification chain to prevent this.  And a big goal for the
> commenting system is to make it have a really low barrier-to-entry.
> Moderately challenging.  Longer term, it'd be nice to be able to export
> the certs so that e.g. any identified member of the Python community
> can post, without moderation, to the comment section of enabled blogs.
> 
> If that isn't entirely obvious ;), I'll give you a demo in a few weeks
> and hopefully that will clear things up.
> 
> cheers,
> --titus
> 
> p.s. I could just be falling prey to wikiphilia,
> 
> 	http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=71
> 
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