This episode contains the second of four recordings made during a recent discussion I led at the December Portland Web Innovators meeting. In this edition, I lead a discussion about best practices and ideas for using reputation within online communities. We talk about different types of reputation systems and using community reputation for rewards and hiring from within the community.
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The next edition in this series of four podcasts from the Portland Web Innovators meeting talks about ideas for structuring new online communities. After these initial four podcasts, I am planning to switch to an interview format (via skype most likely), so if you are doing something really cool with your online community, please let me know! I am open to suggestions for potential interviews.
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Enjoying the podcasts. The reputation systems area is of great interest to me. Last year I did a paper that took a look at many such systems. There are really a great many ways to make it work (or not!)
I appreciated you mentioning how easily/quickly these things can be gamed and that you might as well plan on that happeing. Having a person ‘filtering’ the results of an automated system seems to make things more fair. The use of a ‘person filter’ may be necessary once the power/prestige of the level/rank gets to a certain point.
Further, in matters where the identity of the person is important, and may even be legally binding, such as verifying if someone is a licensed medical doctor, the use of a person is probably mandatory.