Re: Drop Dynamic Querying - It only benefits Spammers these days

From: "Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]>
> If they don't vote in a meaningful way (some of their votes in line with your 
> votes, some against), then your client simply doesn't count their votes at 
> all (since they don't reach the treshold of being of value, either good or 
> bad). 
> 
> Please remember, that you don't vote on people but on files in the Credence 
> system. 
> http://credence-p2p.org/Credence_nsdi.pdf

How do you know who has voted negatively against your files, so that you give them negative value for their votes against you?Couldn't the identity of voters be abused as well (fake or random identities?)
Is that the fact that each identity used must first reach a sufficient threshold of good votes for their votes to have importance?

I see that this paper attempts to find methods under which nodes are classified by behavior, but i am still doubtful. Is it really complex enough to defeat attacks by "smart" automated spammers constantly computing their threshold to remain in the statistics of "good" nodes?

This is interesting anyway...