E-Reputation

[sobrique]

Something mentioned on another source - about how anonimity makes being offensive consequence free - started me thinking.

What if there were some kind of way to assign reputation to internet identities?

You create a holding account website - maybe it's linked to <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID">OpenID</A>?

But the idea, pretty simply, is to allow basic feedback on post quality, and people would be able to +/- vote each post you make.

To extend beyond the limited realm of OpenID maybe some kind of forum signature embed? That does stand a risk of cloning, so you might need some kind of acceptance of accounts/referrers? (whilst referrers aren't secure, it is harder to subvert anyone elses referrers).

And maybe some kind of firefox/opera plugin for signed posting? (e.g. embeds public key signing?)

And then maybe include some plugins for popular forum software.

Maybe you skip the negative voting part - downvotes wouldn't actually do much more than promote exploitation of the system. Just track on postcount vs "good" posts perhaps?

So, what do you think? Has potential? Or it'll never work?

Comments

[jorune.livejournal.com]

I think that it is a difficult nut to crack because of the ability of special interest groups to up their vote in the face of general indifference. Looking at the high scoring articles on reddit, digg, youtube and others shows the inherent flaws and local heroes who get a group vote each time regardless of the objective quality of other posts at the same time.