On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Chip Paswater wrote:> > > > It's not my desire to second-guess you Vipul (however much my missives
> > > > may appear otherwise) or question the hard work you and the other
> > > > developers have put into the system, however it seems that every request
> > > > for such information has been met with silence.
> > >
> > > There are no plans for releasing details about TeS. Before the
> > > release of Razor2, I'd pointed out that Razor2 backend (specially
> > > TeS) will be closed.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification. Guess it's time to find something that is
> > open.
> >
> > Good luck.
>
> Why do the details of the backend need to be open?
>
> I don't think that Ebay publishes it's proprietary trust backend, why
> should Razor?[last message before I unsub]It's a very poor comparison.There is no question as to what Ebay's trust model is. It's
completely transparent. The ratings and the feedback is there for all to
see. Most importantly it relies on the individual to make the decision for
themselves rather or not to trust a buyer/seller.Contrast this with TeS which utilizes "sooper secret" methodologies to
determine rather or not a submitter is trusted or not and at what point
something becomes spam at some level of "confidence."The unfortunate thing is that in my experience Razor is an incredibly
ineffective filter at this point. The spot checking I've done indicates about
a 40% hit rate. Submissions I made a week ago still don't count as spam,
apparently because I'm not trusted enough, or enough people haven't submitted
the item, or some unknown combination thereof. Why anyone would continue to
waste their time submitting items when they aren't being accepted due to
a series of calculations which will not be shared is beyond me.Any trust model that cannot survive public scrutiny isn't worth trusting IMHO./\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
                               Patrick Greenwell
         Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers
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