5. The method of claim 2 , further comprising: generating a measure of relevance of the portable certificate of status to the content; and weighing, with the scoring module, the a priori score according to the relevance of the portable certificate of status to produce the a posteriori score.
5. The method of claim 2 , further comprising: generating a measure of relevance of the portable certificate of status to the content; and weighing, with the scoring module, the a priori score according to the relevance of the portable certificate of status to produce the a posteriori score. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein generating a measure of relevance of the portable certificate of status to the content comprises: accessing a mapping table to map status measurements of an independent site or entity generating the portable certificate of status to status measurements of the forum server; and weighing a status contained in the portable certificate of status according to the mapping.