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.

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That's funny. *I* think of people with low numbers

[kfg]

as "Iraqi Minesweepers," sent out ahead of me to stomp their way along the information superhighway, making it safe for those of us with a greater sense of self preservation, and a few more grey cells, to navigate.

The term "bullet sponge" also comes to mind.

KFG

Re:Reputation, Online Communities, and User Number

[The Bungi]

OK, send me your postal address so I can ship you my newborn.

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO HAS FAILED IT!!!!!

[Failed It You Have!!]

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE YOU FAIL IT!! FAN CLUB!! Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Re:What about EBay or BizRate's rating systems?

[$$$$$exyGal]

Speaking of ebay

--sex

hemos = gay

[mangu]

This will be true whenever "gay" is true, regardless of what value "hemos" had to begin with.

It has been a coding practice among some programmers to always write the constant first when doing comparisons, in order to avoid the possibility of missing an equal sign.

For instance, instead of writing "if (a == 3)" they would write "if (3 == a)", because "if (3 = a)"' would get an error at compile time, but "if (a = 3)" would compile correctly, assign the value of 3 to the variable a and the "if" would always result "true".

Re:Reputation, Online Communities, and User Number

[God! Awful 2]

Unfortunately, a couple of the more immature low user IDs are editors with unlimited karma. Again, no names named, but most people know who they are.

-a