[e2e] Speaking of congestion control...

[Jon Crowcroft]

In missive <200404261635.JAA07867 at gra.isi.edu>, Bob Braden typed:

 >>I would like to ask each of you to limit your contributions to the
 >>current threads to a maximum of one message to the list per 24 hour
 >>period, per thread.
 

 Bob 

can i suggest a fairer scheme:)

we want to assign tokens to people (bucket style) so in general everyone gets 1 message per thread per day
but then we also want to allow high value content - so :
users may trade tokens - if i like someone's content, i give them my tokens and they can say more

if i dislike it, game theory says i dont need to take a lot away - perhaps tit-for-tat could be implemented that
i can spend my token once as a supression token or once as an reward token 

so i could say give dave reed my token of punishment, and  alex cannerra my token of reward, and say not a lot ping
pan's or your messages - 

total volume stays the same, but the shares move around...

now of course, we need that anonimity system, otherwise people are gonna get shy...
(strange how people care so much about double blind review, but want all of finance to be in the open -
transparancy is regarded as the right way to stop worldcom/enron/anderson fiasco, but not the right way to ensure
fair behaviour amongst academics - a case of game theory people saying "do as i say, not as i do":-)

 cheers

   jon