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== Evaluation ==

=== meet in person ===
On a special page you can see the users (with links to that users) the person has given his "meeting flag" (but you only see this and nothing else e.g. the trust/distrust you gave this person). So everyone looking at this page can browse and evaluate the meeting connections and also look at the "what links here" page to look which people say that they meet this person.

=== general trust/distrust ===
# The trust points of a user get calculated by the trust and distrust connections pointing to him. "Neutral" doesn't count as connection but is a interruption in the web. The connections get evaluated by starting from the user and going reverse through the connections pointing to him.
# A direct trust connection counts 1 point, a second degree connection 1/2 point, a third degree connection 1/3 point and so forth up to a maximum degree (perhapes it is only necessary taking up to maximum 3. degree relationship into account).
# A direct distrust connection counts -1 point, a direct distrust connection '''plus''' a trust connection starting from this second user to a third counts additional -1/2 point for the first user, a direct distrust connection followed by two trust connections counts additional -1/3 point and so forth.
# If you reach at a second distrust connection along the path the path for this user stops here as if there would be a normal end of the web.
# Perhapes only the shortest connections between a user and his neighbours in the web of trust should be taken into account for evaluation (and only one of two alternative equally long ways).

The rating list of a person isn't shown to others to prevent people from adding others to their list in form of a demonstration (e.g. preventing that you only set persons on your trust list that also trust you). But on the same special page as above in a second chapter you can see the summary tust points a user got.

=== expert knowledge ===
# For expert knowledge only direct connections get evaluated as expert groups can only work if the persons have a direct relationship. So counting 2. degree relationships and so forth is not reasonable for this.
# The expert knownledge of a person is evaluated the same way as above (but only for direct connections) and could be done together with it as attributes as the two webs are the same topologically by design.
# If one person gave this person expert knowledge in a sub category the expert knowledge of that person in the categories above get added to this category so that you can define a "core".

As above the expert knowledge other persons gave you gets counted in summary and shown on the special page in an own chapter within a list with the category and the knowledge trust points a person got within that category.