Editing Security features discussion on Brainstorm (section)

===Private friend management tool===

A couple of tools for people to organise their friend list, sort them in chronologically-met order, give them a "friendship score", tag them... all of that privately within the limit of their access (the friend doesn't know about it). There is already a step in that direction with the anonymous info given for every friend connection.

The goal is to feed a trust algorithm that would combine the data from all the existing security features in a 0 to 10 score. The beauty of it is that it would allow to use the confidential trust data and the private friend attributes without disclosing them. And would be a lot more reliable than public comments, where people chicken out of their true feeling for fear of retaliation.

To allow the algorithm to be implemented (ie. to avoid it disclosing private or confidential data):

- trust score should only take this sensible data in account after a certain amount of content has been submitted on a given member.

- When a new entry is made on a given user, it will go through the algorithm and, before it is "added" (or subtracted) to the existing trust score, it is given a coefficient equal to zero. So that it does not affect at all the trust score. This coefficient would then rise slowly in a random way and should equal 1 after a period between one and three months (or two other values). That way, it is very difficult to link the variations of the trust score to the comment of a given member.