>>jprose+(OP)
> the purpose of the trust metric is to certify that a given user account on Advogato is known by the Advogato community to actually belong to the individual who claims it and is known to be a member of the free software and open source community. The user may be an crank, annoying, or of a political persuasion that you don't agree with. What the trust metric attempts to guarantee is that they really are who they say they are
Sounds like a slightly different goal but certainly an interesting system to look at