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 06:17 pm (UTC)It's almost like page rank - say I like Stephen fry - his stuff is always interesting. Mt web search results/slashdot-like view of the internet should reflect his opinions a bit more.
Once you have a centralised ID (or even a website where you can link IDs from various sites through some form of crossposted proof) you could potentially implement this on some websites with a browser add-in - you could certainly build a personalised search engine around it.
The main problem I can see with it is a reinforcing of the echo-chamber effect (term for when like minded blogs etc only reference each other the crazy can grow unchecked). However, that would rather depend on the person clicking reps. If you want a balanced well written view of something make sure you give rep bonuses to people on both sides of an argument based on coherency rather than how much you agree with them. (In fact you could have two reps red vs blue or whatever, where one rep is for people you agree with and the other is for people you disagree with.)
Will stop now - I've been thinking about similar ideas for awhile : )