As I mentioned earlier, TrustFlow has been taken down because of the load it causes to LiveJournal. The good news is that LJ are proposing to add new capabilities to their software so that TrustFlow can start up again while causing less load on their servers.
For more information, see the proposed new protocol and discussions on 2003-09-09 ( Read more... )

I could be wrong, but it looks as if the LiveJournal staff are denying access to LJ data from the server that TrustFlow uses. This will probably be because it was causing undue strain on the LJ servers, but it could be for other reasons ( Read more... )

TrustFlow for LiveJournal has so for had nearly 70,000 different users, and over 0,6M hits. Users curemytragedy and seph were so curious to know their rankings that they reloaded the page, respectively, 595 and 817 times.

Ask Slashdot | Distributed Trust Metrics asks whether there could be a trust metric that works across websites. The question is vague and I don ( Read more... )

Updated 2006-04-10: this is about the old version of TrustFlow, which is no longer in operation. See the FAQ for the new version.

Frequently asked questions about TrustFlow for LiveJournal. Please note that I will be very rude to anyone who asks a question answered here so please read carefully before posting.
It doesn't work for me !
It ( Read more... )

More interesting writing from Bram Cohen, discussing adding negative certs to my metric. My instinct is that negative certs are hard to get right but would make it a lot more accurate and useful.

Been looking at Bram's proposal, trying to understand it. Here it is in two forms: a new, object-oriented implementation, and his original one commented.

I could have got either of these completely wrong.

class Person ( Read more... )

One other thing:

Sorry! The load on this computer is too great to calculate the results for
username. It's only a very little computer and many people are trying to use at the moment. I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to fix this, so please just keep trying.

Why do people keep telling me that it's not working for them and quoting this ( Read more... )

TrustFlow does not look at interests, who reads your journal, or any other such thing. It looks only at "friends" lists. It's trying to determine who is closest to who based on who lists who as a friend ( Read more... )

Bram Cohen discusses my metric in his journal, including proposing a modification. I haven't had time to analyse this in detail yet, but it seems interesting!

Quite a few people have asked for this, so here it is, source code for the trust metric as I'm currently running it. It's nasty and dirty in various ways, but it seems to be getting the job done so far. Improvements welcome ( Read more... )