E-Reputation
Feb. 26th, 2009 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueSomething 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?
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?
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Date: 2009-02-26 01:41 pm (UTC)IMHO, linking 'net ID to openID would be a Good Thing for a number of purposes. Having an 'official' presence is slowly becoming more of a necessity now that Social Media is becoming increasingly pervasive. It wouldn't be suitable for everything, of course, and anonymity should remain an option as more employers regularly google (prospective) employees.
Reputation itself would be incredibly hard to balance - opinion is split on most things, and the only way to have a net positive would be to agree with the consensus on most topics - which would cripple the idea of it being a balanced rep system.
I'd trawl a few sites/debates on Whuffie - it's likely to have the greatest concentration of ideas on the subject.