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Risk-reduction strategies for CouchSurfing

We are working on a unified trust metric for CouchSurfing, supplanting the several systems (friend links, references, vouching) currently in use, and providing a single, quantitative assessment of a users' trustworthiness, and our degree of confidence about that trustworthiness.

Desired attributes

Proposals

One proposed calculation is at TrustRating.

Another is in File:CS Score.xls.


See also

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