The Reputation-specific slides from our IA Summit 2009 Workshop, The Architecture of Social Websites. Workshop given by Christina Wodtke, Joshua Porter, Christian Crumlish, and myself Bryce Glass.
4. “ Reputation is another potential source of information about an opponent's fighting ability . Reputation is defined here as the estimation held by one individual of another individual's qualities or characteristics . Reputation is thus a property of one animal in relation to another. One animal's reputation may be learned by another through personal experience with it, or secondhand, through the experiences of others .” — Deception, Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit By Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson Photo: “ Scars ” by Imansyah™ used under Creative Commons license .
5. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time .
6. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of information? Where does this information come from ?
7. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of value judgments can we make?
8. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . We call these reputable entities . Reputable entities may be people on your site, or they may be the objects & artifacts that they interact with. What qualities do good reputable entities possess? Is people reputation ( karma ) demonstrably different than content reputation ?
9. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . Can one reputation serve all contexts ? Global vs. local reputations Choosing the right scope . Is reputation portable ? Can I “carry” it from context to context?
10. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . Nothing lasts forever. Reputations should decay . Use time-based filters for reputation-ranked content.
14. RE as Person Reputation extends one’s identity… … esp. when said identity is weak Metadata is reputation Gathered from Ratings Associations & Affiliations are also reputation Rep can be displayed as a score
15. RE as Object Objects frequently come from people . Statistical Evidence Volume of response Community Ratings
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33. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of information? Where does this information come from? How do we experience it ?
64. Reputation is… Information used to make a value judgment about an object or person within a context for a period of time . What kinds of value judgments? Who’s doing the judging? How are these judgments expressed ?