Online Reputation Is Hard To Do

Symblized writes "A new article from InformationWeek argues that not only does the Web need ways to verify identity, it also needs better ways to measure reputation . The article uses Digg, Wikipedia, and eBay as examples and muses whether their models could be applied more widely. There's also a profile of Opinity, a company that tried to introduce a reputation system and didn't make it. Choice quote from a source in the article: 'The idea of a transferable, semantic reputation is identity nirvana.'"

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Re:And what do you buy with that currency?

[poopdeville]

it matters because if you have good rep on slashdot, chances are you're not a complete mumpty.

You obviously haven't been reading slashdot very long. Not only is it full of morons, but getting 'Excellent' karma is easy. All you have to do is make 40 something posts that aren't modded down. Less if they get modded up. Slashdot should not be an indicator of general repute.