Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-06 Thread Adam Shostack
PS: Raph is the one who later created avogato, with a simpler reputation system. I can't recall if he talks about these schemes in his writings on reputation. Adam On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Sunder wrote: | | Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :) | | I haven't ch

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-06 Thread Adam Shostack
Raph, not Ralph. The attack involved Alice and Bob giving opposite reputations to Charlie, or Alice and Bob, both of whom you respect, giving very bad reputations to each other. Adam On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:38:53AM -0500, Sunder wrote: | | Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-03 Thread Sunder
Right, but will this type of thing cause oscillations, or some sort of synchronizations, and if so, what are the ways around it... In some ways I do look at that repcap model as a stock market, but rather than individual stocks, you have reputations. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kyberneto

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-03 Thread mattd
Response to...This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad judgment

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-03 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: "Sunder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Say for instance Mr. Measels manages to accumulate quite a large sum of > positive repcap, if he spews a bunch of the lame ass CJ knockoff messages, > I suspect most people would adjust their cached repcap's of him pretty > quickly - At least I would. (CJ did

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-03 Thread Erik Seaberg
This is often known as "collaborative filtering", and pops up in systems like NoCeM and GroupLens. What's cool is that you don't need transitive trust or even poster reputations (anonymity without so much vandalism!). Just give the right reviewers the reputation "good/bad judgment about which ar

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-03 Thread Sunder
Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :) I haven't checked in any meaningful way, but that thread doesn't seem to have any replies from Ralph... Do you recall any details as to what would cause oscillations? Would be interesting to explore this. I expect that having a way to prove

Re: Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-12-01 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Sunder wrote: | | Say Tim has a repcap of 600, say Declan has 500, and Sandy has 400. Then | I add +1 * 500/X from Declan's repcap and +1 *400/X to Tim's repcap, so | now my cache of Tim's repcap might jump to 620. Interesting idea. I proposed somethin

Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

2001-11-30 Thread Sunder
There are plenty of systems of reputation capital already in existance out there. (RepCap to shorten it.) In this post, I will use several fictional examples, though the names may or may not resemble actual Nyms, within the context of this post, they are fictional and any such resemblance is pure