Hi Dieter,
I think for the Semantic Web, the anti-spam tactics have to take into account the strategy inherent in architecture of the Semantic Web itself. This message did not make it to the Semantic Web board yesterday (below). The idea of pushing big data through a "slow" network path is counterintuitive, but nonetheless a "feature" of the Semantic Web's backbone.
===== (To Markus, yesterday)=====
I just wanted to say that
visibility (in the sense of popularity) and perceived authority are
problematic metrics everywhere, but the normal work-arounds carry a
danger for applications which depend upon degrees of separation rather
than direct links between data structures. Social Networks, FB for
example have 4.75 degrees of network separation between any two random
users, but a direct link between the "Home Office" and any single user. Two direct links seem more efficient than 4.75 although that option
completely misses the point of the Semantic Web. Knowledge transfer, not message transfer is the object, and that of
itself requires a different way of thinking. Sorry to say you are
dealing with two kinds of Spam, some just plain nasty and some
well-intentioned with the assumption that a short-circuit is always the best cure.
=====
--Gannon
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From: Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@sti2.at>
To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>; Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
Cc: Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@cs.ox.ac.uk>; Yury Katkov <katkov.juriy@gmail.com>; Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>; Semantic MediaWiki users <semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net>; Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: status and problems on sematicweb.org
At 09:58 AM 1/13/2012, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
>>1. Try to remove the recent spam
>>2. Enforce a strict registration schema and allow edits only to
>>registered participants.
>>
>>I think the community is small enough
Small? The community around big data is exponentially growing.
--
Dieter Fensel
Director STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/
phone: +43-512-507-6488/5, fax: +43-512-507-9872