Digaran got me going on this one, asking what could be done to see trust relationships visually. I hadn't given much though to Trust before personally, although I do look at the figures if they stand out in the User Profile.
The Trust.txt file that is made public by themos, and contains the equivalent to our Hierarchical View of Trust, visible here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;full (takes a few minutes to build the complete list). There is no other information such as feedback or comments in the file, so the derived information is rather simple, but graphical. Note that only forum users with trust or distrust are included in the file, and thus in the provided tool.
You can play around with the data using the following this link:
Trust NetworkSince I have no Trust/Distrust information associated to my profile, I've taken the liberty of using Theymos' as the example profile for my screenshots.
1. Examples:The output is something like this:
a) Who I distrust:Shows who I distrust (equivalent to users crossed out in the Forum Profile Hierarchical View of Trust). As an example, here's theymos' distrusted network:
b) Who I trust:Shows who I trust (equivalent to users not crossed out in the Forum Profile Hierarchical View of Trust). As an example, here's theymos' trusted network:
c) Who distrusts Me:Shows who I'm distrusted by. As an example, these are the profiles that distrust theymos:
d) Who Trusts Me:Shows who I'm trusted by. As an example, these are the profiles that trust theymos:
2. UseThe google product has three Tabs:
2.1. Data:
We don't need to do anything with this Tab.
It's the loaded trust.txt file after processing it an converting an Untrusted Relation to
1 and a Trusted Relation to a
2.
2.2 Who I trust / Distrust: This tells us who I trust or distrust, but we need to filter by my username
and whether I want to see Untrusted Relationships(1) or Trust Relationships (2). To do this:
- Click the Filter dropdown box
- Select UserFromName value (a filter should be now visible on the left side of the screen)
- On the filter you can now type your user name (i.e. theymos)
- Select TrustType value (a filter should be now visible on the left side of the screen)
- On the filter you can now type the range: 1 to 1 to see Untrusted Relationships. 2 to 2 to see Trusted Relationships.
If you forget to apply this filter, you will see both trusted and untrusted relation mixed up, and although Trusted Nodes are larger in size than Untrusted Nodes, it’s a bit confusing to have both sets on screen simultaneously.
- Press Find:
- Filter should be applied and the image limited to the selected user, viewing his trusted or distrusted network.
- You can adjust the image size and move it around.
- There’s an irritating thing (that seems to be a bug) that often happens: Not all nodes are shown by default, so
you need to increase the nodes in the box above the image (I normally just
retype the upper limit of nodes shown by the node box).
- If you want to filter by another user, it's best to delete the filter (using the cross) and restart again (otherwise it adds both users to the query).
2.3 Who Trusts Me/ Distrusts Me: This tells us which Networks we are in, either because we are trusted or distrusted. To do this:
- Exactly the same as above, but filter by UserToName + TrustType.
You can also see the exact data where the chart derives from by clicking on the three dots above the image and dragging it down.
Note This is a similar product in terms of usage to Our very own sMerit Network Picture (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3395255.0)
