It's possible no-one else will ever join this community, but that's OK, I can use it as a private dumping ground for some of my notes on the subject...
Me asking about determinism in Advogato. It turns out Advogato isn't deterministic.
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=lj_dev&itemid=328390&thread=3072198#t3072198 The Advogato trust metric:
http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html Raph Levien's PhD thesis draft. Often updated.
http://www.levien.com/thesis/compact.pdf TeX sources:
http://www.levien.com/thesis/ Raph's diary:
http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/