TrustFlow frequently asked questions

[ciphergoth]

TrustFlow for LiveJournal

Frequently asked questions

What do the results mean?
TrustFlow is making a guess at who is "near" your friends list; who might be on it, but isn't. It does this by looking at your friends list, and the friends list of your friends, and so on.

Is this based on who reads my journal, or interests, or what?
No.

Comments

[cyberglamour]

I don't get it.I just don't get the whole point or meaning of it.

[raventhon]

It lists people that are near you in lj-space. Basically, people friended by a lot of your friends but not you.

[cyberglamour]

hmmmm....Got it now..But I cannot see the use in it then...bit pointless really..

[ciphergoth]

Yeah, it is. There are applications where something like this can be really useful, but this isn't really the perfect one; I'd just written the algorithm and LJ was right there so I thought it would be a bit of fun. It was so popular last time it ate the computer it was running on and used so much of LJs bandwidth that they shut it down; I fixed some of the problems but I didn't get around to finding a bigger computer until now, about two years later...

[qryztufre]

I'm a member of several message boards and when I ran the list it was filled mostly with names I'd not bother friending (though, I skimmed through many of them).

One thing I did notice and like however was that it listed a few people I knew from other places that I did not know existed here at LJ.

I've made a few new "friends" because of this...

*shrug*

[illusi0nist]

...but who cares? Ultimately, what purpose does this thing even serve?

[raventhon]

It's a trust thing. Basically, a bunch of your friends trust this person, so even though you may not know them, they may be trustworthy.

thank you

[mousee23]

awsome explanation