Quote from: gjhiggins on April 08, 2015, 11:16:56 AM

Quote from: melvster on April 08, 2015, 10:37:21 AM

I really hope this can be turned around and made into a success, because the web needs a good reputation system.

I admire your optimism. I had some email convos with Mark Pfennig during the period of time when he was researching for Bitmark (and on a different occasion with insanitycoin because of his interest in the blockchain-cum-RDF). We had a go at discussing the issues in a reputation system but I found that his naive and uninformed model rendered the attempt futile.

Question is: what makes you feel that someone who has demonstrated such questionable social judgement is capable of designing and building an effective reputation system?

Cheers

Graham

P.S. I owe you an email, I'm working on it

Im agreeing with you here.

The mechanics of an effective reputation system have to be honed in with some skill. Probably more skill that this project has at the moment, but there's room to grow. Even if a relatively small effort is made, it's such a big space that even a small piece is worth a lot.

I dont much mind who builds a web scale reputation system, so long as someone does it, and preferably loosely coupled the data and the data analysis. If this is the project that does it id be happy, but opportunities dont last indefinitely and the clock is ticking.

A good reputation system should not have a single point of failure, so should be independent of the designers. The person who invented chess rankings, shouldnt have an influence on who the best chess player is.