I just attended the Bellingcat / Persuasion / RDI webcast and a perfect extension to Boxtag occurred to me. Right now I'll call it the greylist.
There's a battle against ad spam and spam in general. But right now the corpuses built are strictly black and white. How about a greylist? What if we added Boxtag karma components to OPs and comments and attached those metadata to corpuses of email addresses? Well that's the basic idea. This means that there needs to be a backlink to certifiably credible documents in some evidentiary chain, but once this is established it would only grow. The first customer for this will be organizations like Bellingcat, but also the circle of independent journalists and NGOs and ex-officio individuals associated with doing all of this.
A good model might be a different way of parsing out IMDB as a test corpus. I've done it many times - you look to find what movies a particular star, or even a particular second unit director is associated with. Wouldn't it be cool to do the same thing by adding their critics into the mix. Well David Denby said X about this film. An easy tangent would be to connect these up to Golden Globe and Academy Awards. So that's the basic idea. Expand the reach of Boxtag karma components to various corpuses and establish gradations of credibility that reach beyond a single website's comment section and trace back to registered dimensions. (Ultimately these registered dimensions will be the IP, rather like Pantone registers colors. We can have many shades of the dimensions of credibility and interest).
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