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==Red, Yellow and Green Lights== The Consumerium Exchange does not necessarily determine whether the "red light" or "green light" goes off. In fact only those cases where a "yellow light" (caution) goes off, should really require anyone to read anything. --[[142.177.X.X]] :Actually i think that The Consumerium Exchange _is_ what turns on and off the lights if you desire such a simple interface. ::Realistically, this simple interface is what almost all consumers will really use, and more important, what retailers will use to decide what to stock on their shelves. I can think of retailers who would have nothing less than a "strong support" on their shelves, others that would only respond to a global boycott: :Let me explain. Suppose there are three different levels of [[Boycott]] (avoid, strong avoid, boycott) and three levels of [[Endorsement]] (support, strong support, endorse) that the [[Campaign]] management chooses from. Then the algo for figuring which light out of the spectrum appears would roughly be the following: #Give "weights" to each level. say -1,-2,-3 and 1,2,3 #Multiply the votes for each [[Campaign]] with the weight the campaign has set #Divide the result with the total amount of votes in the Campaigns on this product #Voila. We have a number that can be converted into a shade of light on your favourite spectrum :This process will of course get a lot more complicated in practice due to that one has to take a stand on how to trust direct and indirect votes and further on how to trust different classes of direct votes and then there is of course the selective exclusion of votes that also affects the algo, not to forget the fact that an [[industry]], [[company]] and/or [[product group]] may be targeted by campaigns that could [[Cascading Campaign|cascade]] to the [[product]] itself and one would have to figure out how to value these cascading votes ... -[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 17:14 Oct 1, 2003 (EEST) :Yes, there are [[correlation]]s potentially between any industry, company, product, resource or method and any other. These can be quite strong or so weak as to be irrelevant. Best to think of it as a general map of all to all... :The trust algorithms can be quite individual, or specific to a region (especially an ecoregion) of origin (if the issue is how it is produced) or consumption (if the issue is how it is disposed). ----
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