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The Reality of Online Reputation
Nicholas Carroll (of Why Unicode Won't Work On The Internet fame) has written a piece for Mindjack entitled "Spinning The Web: The Realities of Online Reputation Management". Trust me - the actual subject matter is a lot more interesting then the title *grin*. The essay is aimed toward companies online, but is applicable to individuals as well.
*grin*
Some online communities base reputation at least partly upon user numbers.
For example, the mere presence of words uttered by he who has a low user number shines forth radiantly upon all, bestowing in them great wisdom and happiness.
(Note: the higher user numbers are that much more removed from the Form of Wisdom and Happiness).
Based on the misinformed article on Unicode the author posted before, I am not going to bother reading his current article...
Wow, almost as content-free and buzzword-driven as Jon! Care to tell us something we don't know?
Your comments deserve a much deserved score of 500. The top slashdot will allow. I hope you like ALPO dog food. That's what you win !
Karma: Excellent (Mostly the result of successful online reputation management)
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From the linked story:
To form an opinion based on reading Epinions or Slashdot takes a lot more work than soaking up a newspaper headline or drooling in front of the six o'clock news. On Epinions you have to read the various reviews and weigh them against each other. On Slashdot one has to read the original article, and think, or at least wade through the posts. (my emphasis)
Which
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
If anybody was truly concerned about their online reputation, slashdot would have no posts.
Trolling is a art,
"For example, the mere presence of words uttered by he who has a low user number shines forth radiantly upon all, bestowing in them great wisdom and happiness."
Don't forget post count, that Anonymous Coward guy is extremely active on Slashdot!
SLASHDOT COMMITS UNICIDE
Slaughters all non-ASCII-speaking netizens, film at eleven
THE HAGUE -- Robert ?CmdrTaco? Malda, the owner of the popular technology website Slash Dot, has become one of the first U.S. citizens to be indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against typography. The Court, authorized by the Rome Statute and ratified by over 60 nations, is charged with the duty of prosecuting individuals for serious human rights violations such as genocide, torture, and sexual slavery.
With this prosecution, the Court seems intent on adding a new crime to their docket, the crime of ?Unicide.?
?What this ?Taco Commander? did to the international community is unconscionable,? U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was quoted saying. ?Yesterday, there was a flourishing Unicode-speaking population, numbering in the thousands. Today, there are none. They are all silenced. Their Unicode is either blocked by this so-called ?Lameness Filter? or silently wrenched from their messages.?
Slash Dot is home to at least 580,000 citizens, who hail from every Internet-equipped country in the world. However, many more ? perhaps nearly a million ? live anonymously amongst the ranks of registered citizens.
????? ? ?????, Prime Minister of ???? ?????????????, was outraged when he heard of Slash Dot?s decision to cleanse all Unicode-speaking individuals from their website.
The White House was dismayed by the decision of the Court to prosecute an American citizen for what the President deemed, a ?politicalized persecutorial.? White House spokesman Ari Flescher announced that the U.S. would, if pressed, go forward with their recently unveiled plan to invade the Netherlands, if this prosecution was not halted. ?This is absolutely stunning,? he said. ?That the United States would be expected to even acknowledge the presence of other character sets other than ASCII is an offense in its own right. You either write in ASCII, or you?re with the terrorists.?
Slash Dot, and its parent corporation, VA Software, were unavailable for comment.
Wait, I should *read* the article first, and *not* form an opinion based upon the article title? WTH? I've being doing it wrong!
Nicholas Carroll must be from bizarro world ;)
std::disclaimer<std::legalese> sig=new std::disclaimer; sig->dump(); delete sig;
After posting his thoughts on Unicode, the author no longer has a good online reputation. As a result, no one actually bothered to read this article.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
But even with your user number of 3, you only have 56 comments...lot of wisdom you seem to be dispensing :)
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
I took your advice, and googled you.
Your reputation isn't very good. I see you were involved with some hype and computer crashes a few years ago, and caused millions of dollars in damage at some companies.
Geeze, I'd never hire you! You'd be lucky to get a job as a janitor at chicken farm!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Yeah, but the content is rarely worth reading...
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
If I were them I would start by taking aim at your spelling skills. :)
"The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."
I have never gotten any karma out of having a low user number on slashdot. Usually, I've just been flamed!
Damn newbs! Don't they know I was on the internet back when it ran over tin cans and string!?
At the top of the article is an image of a laptop open, and the desktop image is a huge head of a woman on the desktop of the laptop.
Were I a serial killer that decapitated my victims and then froze the heads for later perusal and admirement (is that even a word) - then I'd totally have that picture as my desktop background.
as a whole, the article raises some good points, but there were also parts that I disagreed with on many points - hell, the broad sweeping mention that the airline industry on the web was doomed from the start and then listing the reason as no face to face contact? fuck that, I disagree.
but this post isn't about my disagreement, it is about the scary blue head.
fear the head.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh, wait... you're serious, aren't you?
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.