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AUR Registrations Blocked Amid Ongoing Malware Mess
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By the way, secure open trust systems are hard. Around 2000, there was a FOSS web site called kuro5hin.org, a slashdot-sryle discussion board, which experimented with trust networks. As far as I remember, they did not find a good solution.
Wikipedia or stack overflow has the same issues.
I think a kind of real-life-based(!), signature-based web of trust like the GnuPG web of trust (but ideally with more user-friendly software....) could be part of the solution