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TrustFlow frequently asked questions

Mar 28, 2006 14:01

TrustFlow for LiveJournal

Frequently asked questions

What do the results mean?
TrustFlow is making a guess at who is "near" your friends list; who might be on it, but isn't. It does this by looking at your friends list, and the friends list of your friends, and so on.

Is this based on who reads my journal, or interests, or what?
No. ( Read more... )

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cyberglamour March 28 2006, 19:50:07 UTC

I don't get it.I just don't get the whole point or meaning of it.

raventhon March 28 2006, 20:41:53 UTC

It lists people that are near you in lj-space. Basically, people friended by a lot of your friends but not you.

cyberglamour March 28 2006, 21:09:44 UTC

hmmmm....Got it now..But I cannot see the use in it then...bit pointless really..

ciphergoth March 28 2006, 22:42:53 UTC

Yeah, it is. There are applications where something like this can be really useful, but this isn't really the perfect one; I'd just written the algorithm and LJ was right there so I thought it would be a bit of fun. It was so popular last time it ate the computer it was running on and used so much of LJs bandwidth that they shut it down; I fixed some of the problems but I didn't get around to finding a bigger computer until now, about two years later...

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daemonnoire March 28 2006, 20:28:43 UTC

It's funny... The two people I trust the least came up first. I don't know what that says about my friends.

emberleo March 31 2006, 03:31:16 UTC

Well, there may well be total strangers you'd trust even less if you were exposed to them as often. So really, it just says those two people have, via mutual friends, had more opportunities to lose your trust.

--Ember--

flummoxicated March 28 2006, 21:22:22 UTC

I was a bit startled when the results popped up in my "create new entry" page; I do tend to be a Internet safety freak though. Wasn't sure how you were able to do that.

ciphergoth March 28 2006, 22:48:00 UTC

As it happens, you don't have to worry - I invented the mechanism that means your LJ can't be attacked that way. There was a time when such a button could not only have created such an entry, but posted it too. With JavaScript to press the button automatically, this resulted in a relatively harmless but annoying attack on LJ called the "sausage attack". For more, see here:

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/641972.html

With my defence in place, I can pre-fill the "create new entry" page, but I can't make you post it. So it's just a convenience to you.

You are wise to be an internet safety freak.

elkor March 28 2006, 21:27:45 UTC

You might want to make it not-case sensitive.

ciphergoth March 28 2006, 22:36:40 UTC

Good idea - thanks! Will do tomorrow.

ciphergoth March 29 2006, 09:16:55 UTC

Done.

mauser March 29 2006, 03:09:33 UTC

One issue with the "Create New Entry" page is that apparently it's time zone sensitive. After I posted the meme, I went to make another entry and my LJ Client pointed out to me that my latest entry had a newer timestamp than the entry I was trying to post, and that I hadn't set the backdate checkbox. Lo and Behold, the output from the meme was hours ahead for me (in the Pacific time zone).

(I'd still like to find a mechanism out there to try to find people I don't know yet with the greatest number of common interests).0

ciphergoth March 29 2006, 08:06:05 UTC

whooops!

The correct fix is to fill out those fields with JavaScript. like the usual "post new entry" form does. That way I get your local time. I'll sort it out today.

silverrose March 31 2006, 17:30:00 UTC

(I'd still like to find a mechanism out there to try to find people I don't know yet with the greatest number of common interests).

There is one- if I can find it I'll send it to you.

mauser March 31 2006, 19:56:42 UTC

Thanks, I hope you can find it.

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