10 practical questions for designing a reputation system. This talk was (partially!) given at the 2008 IA Summit. Some of the themes and points from this presentation are expanded on in our book, Building Web Reputation Systems (O'Reilly, 2010) See more at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159801

1. Designing your
reputation system
(in 15 10! easy steps)
Bryce Glass
bryce@yahoo-inc.com
IA Summit 2008
Miami, Florida

2. What will we cover?
1. First, let’s define our terms
2. Then we’ll review a number of
common reputation patterns
3. Finally, I’ll pose a number of
questions designed to assist you in
employing these patterns
properly.
DESIGNING YOUR REPUTATION SYSTEM IN 15 EASY STEPS
With 15 questions, I may be over-reaching. But once I’d submitted the talk title to the
Summit, I felt committed!
Though some questions will be given a highly-abbreviated treatment, the set really does
represent every issue I think you’d have to deal with when designing a reputation system.
I will try to publish a complete and annotated version of the questions online after the
summit.