Comments on: Episode 2: Reputation Systems in Online Communities http://fastwonderblog.com/2007/12/16/episode-2-reputation-systems-in-online-communities/ Thoughts on online community strategy, community management, blogging, social media, Yahoo Pipes and open source. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:59:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Norris http://fastwonderblog.com/2007/12/16/episode-2-reputation-systems-in-online-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-66370 John Norris Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:16:51 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/2007/12/16/episode-2-reputation-systems-in-online-communities/#comment-66370 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. 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.

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