Trust statement
From TrustLet, a free, collaborative project for collecting and analyzing information about trust metrics.
A trust statement is the explicit expression of a perceived trust level. It is made by the truster and represents the subjective judgment of the trustee's trustworthiness, according to the truster's point of view.
For example, on Advogato, user A can certify user B as "Master". We can say that user A has issued a trust statement about user B whose value is "Master", representing the fact "I, user A, explicitly express that I trust user B at "Master" level".
It is usually represented as an arrow going from the truster to the trustee, possibly with a weight over it representing the intensity of trust.
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Aggregating the trust statements expressed by all the users of the community it is possible to create the overall trust network and then, possibly, to run a trust metric on it.
