Comments on: Reputation systems http://ferrouswheel.me/2009/06/reputation-systems/ watching the world turn. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joel http://ferrouswheel.me/2009/06/reputation-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-961 Joel Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:46:14 +0000 http://ferrouswheel.me/?p=309#comment-961 Yeah, there are quite a few different options of reputation sites. LinkedIn is similar - but specifically aimed at career and professional reputation. I guess it'd be hard to get people to sign up to a generic reputation site, since, if anybody can comment and it's for all aspects of life, then anyone whose been burned by someone (even if inadvertently) will potentially make it known. Plus humans have a bias towards reporting negative experiences... so that could skew things too. Yeah, there are quite a few different options of reputation sites. LinkedIn is similar – but specifically aimed at career and professional reputation.

I guess it’d be hard to get people to sign up to a generic reputation site, since, if anybody can comment and it’s for all aspects of life, then anyone whose been burned by someone (even if inadvertently) will potentially make it known.

Plus humans have a bias towards reporting negative experiences… so that could skew things too.

]]> By: James MM http://ferrouswheel.me/2009/06/reputation-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-960 James MM Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:55:20 +0000 http://ferrouswheel.me/?p=309#comment-960 Indeed, a valuable-sounding idea on the face of it, but as often happens, privacy issues factor in. This makes me think of the website couchsurfing.com, which uses a system of 'vouching' and references from others, similar to restaurant reviews, to allow potential hosts to weigh up a possible guest's potential to go sideways on them. Currently we rely on antiquated ideas like The Law to take bad drivers off the road (which is working REAL well...) or burglars in jail (...). It's a persistent oxymoron that the middle ground - between the high and the low - is notoriously difficult to reach. Any policy analyst can attest to that. Indeed, a valuable-sounding idea on the face of it, but as often happens, privacy issues factor in.

This makes me think of the website couchsurfing.com, which uses a system of ‘vouching’ and references from others, similar to restaurant reviews, to allow potential hosts to weigh up a possible guest’s potential to go sideways on them.

Currently we rely on antiquated ideas like The Law to take bad drivers off the road (which is working REAL well…) or burglars in jail (…). It’s a persistent oxymoron that the middle ground – between the high and the low – is notoriously difficult to reach. Any policy analyst can attest to that.

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