Editing Trust

Some [[CSCW]] researchers investigate '''trust''' within and between teams of people and how it can be used as a tool in determining how information is actually shared between members. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

*[[repute]]: "information and person credibility assessment and usage",
*[[defer]]ence relations: "trusted information routing discovery mechanisms,"
*[[faction]]s:  "the use of trust as a tool for decision making regarding information sharing." - [http://www.stephenmarsh.ca/CSCW04/index.html]

"In general, the disclosure of information, how it propagates through networks of people and machines, and how trust can play a valuable part in, amongst other things, what is disclosed, to whom, when, and for what duration." -  by [[Stephen Marsh]] of the [[National Research Council of Canada]].

*[http://www.stephenmarsh.ca/CHI04/ CHI 04 papers on trust] and how it is abused, e.g. by [[sysop power structure]].

=== at Consumerium ===

'''Trust''' for our purposes can be divided into [[found trust]], [[built trust]] and [[grown trust]].  It can be measured as "[[social capital]]" but not very reliably, as usually a [[faction]] gets involved in what behaviour is seen as admirable or reliable or even predictable, and is certainly required to create [[reputation]].

[[Troll]]s tend to challenge prevailing ideas about trust - on [[large public wiki]]s they very often succeed in reversing people's beliefs about reputation and trustworthiness, by using a sort of [[scientific method]] of baiting [[sysop]]s.  This works quite reliably and may bring about [[regime change]].

In response to 18th century trolls, who created the French Revolution and American Revolution, [[governance organization]]s began to use [[distrust]] more explicitly, to prevent trust from becoming too centralized.  This is probably what the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] should do on day one, instead of repeating all of political evolution as [[Wikipedia]] is doomed to do, wasting years trying to deny that [[politics as usual]] is also inevitable and that [[factionalism]] is probably good too, when it's correctly supported and each element of the [[political spectrum]] has their own role & [[faction]] to protect [[common interests]].

A [[legal trust]] like a [[patent pool]] is a different question entirely.

See [[w:trust]] for a more general discussion of both ideas of trust.