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1. O.I.B.
   Member

   I don't think that 1S is having problems whit fake files but that may come when 1S gets popular.
   The idea is that nobody is going to add a friend how is searing fake content BUT if this person joins a community then he can infect the network whit fake content, to prevent that you can add an option to prevent the search term from being passed onto a 'community server friend'. (if its technically possible)

   I assume that a 'community server friend' can return string searches that is, else there isn't a problem.

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. Natanael_L
   Member

   I think that it should be solved somewhat differently.

   Every file is hashed, and all files are identified by their hashes "under the hood" in the OneSwarm client, so it's easy to create a default "fake content warning"-message that could contain the hash, the file name and it's description together with a description of what's really there written by the one warned about it.

   The information should contain all information about the file that's available - if you know the username of the sharer (which you do if you are friends) then it should be in there.

   Like with the community servers, there could be a prenumeration based service that keeps tracks of warnings for fake content. You should have to be logged in to the server to report things to prevent abuse.

   The community servers could have this functionality.

   Posted 3 years ago #

3. lah
   Member

   But the friend who have the fake content may just have downloading it self and not checked it yet. So the add user name part is a bit harsh, else a good idea.

   Posted 3 years ago #

4. Natanael_L
   Member

   lah: That's not the point - if the friend haven't made the files visible to you manually, you won't see the files when you browse around in your friends visible files.
   Stuff you get as search results normally won't be "linked" to the friends they come trough, only if the results are among the files they have made visible to you.

   And if you are connected to a community server and make stuff publicly visible by default, the people you are connected to will see what files come directly from you, and what only passes trough you/what's not publicly visible.

   Posted 3 years ago #

5. lah
   Member

   But, the current default visibility for download is 'all friends'. It currently make sens as it else would not be text searchable (witch don't make sens on the other hand).

   If we could rate, flag as fake and comment on swarms and that was returned with the text search result we would get (only a random few) ratings and comments helping a little bit.

   The risk is that people frequently search for there own swarms to collect feedback - but the social value might result in more sharing and be worth it :-)

   Posted 3 years ago #

6. lah
   Member

   If the hash was visible in the search result we could use twitter or whatever to ad comments, check for comments and discuss swarms.

   Posted 3 years ago #

7. Natanael_L
   Member

   Visibility is only for if friends should see that YOU have it, not accesibility to the network.
   At least as far as I know.
   Anyway, I don't have much time right now to comment this.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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