{"id":910,"date":"2006-05-15T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2006-06-01T00:31:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T04:31:29","slug":"six-degrees-of-reverse-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Reverse Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just posted this on the Second Life forum (thread – Link<\/a>). I think the idea might be worth pursuing. Here it is without the difficult-to-read “quote” format:<\/p>\n

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Last week I posted something on Blogspotting (Link)<\/a> that’s been extended by this thread. Let me give you an example.<\/p>\n

Let’s say someone posts here on the SL Forum that they hate Metallica and download the band’s music but don’t pay for it (why they’d do that I don’t know, but I’ve seen people post those kinds of comments before). Imagine someone like Turbo thinking “Fine, let’s see how they like it turned around on them.”<\/p>\n

How?<\/p>\n

Simple. That person either creates or consumes. If they create, it’s easy enough to grab their stuff, copy it, and distribute it for free in ways the Lindens can’t or won’t deal with. If they’re a consumer it’s more interesting; like a reverse “six degrees of separation”.<\/p>\n

Let’s say they don’t create anything, but have friends who do. Well, it’s those friends who are targeted instead. Imagine how angry someone would be if the attitude of a “friend” affected their SL business. And when the freebies get released, it would explain this cause-effect chain quite clearly so that the person getting ripped off knows why and because of whom.
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\nLet’s instead assume that this person consumes but has no friends who create (or none that are claimed). No problem. Anything they purchase becomes fair game. If they have a purchased skin, then that gets put in the Free Distribution Pipeline. The effect? Sellers will either not sell or will tie price to reputation. So if this person wants to buy a skin, instead of L$4000 it might be custom priced at … L$1,000,000.<\/p>\n

Imagine a world where the things you want are tied to your personal behavior – the respect or lack of respect you afford those who either create or have a hand in bringing creations to the people.<\/p>\n

Fun stuff.<\/p>\n

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For reference, this story over on NPR, “Groups Unite in Dislike of Freeloaders<\/a>“, might be worth a read. Interesting and relevant to this idea.<\/p>\n

Also check out an earlier entry dealing with this topic, “Reputation Rebang In Progress” (reLink)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

{Update: Turns out a related post has popped up on Terra Nova (Link)<\/a>. It’s another one about Google’s recently-reported virtual ambitions, but with a focus on the problems … the kinds of problems which a reputation system might help to reduce.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just posted this on the Second Life forum (thread – Link). I think the idea might be worth pursuing. Here it is without the difficult-to-read “quote” format: — Last week I posted something on Blogspotting (Link) that’s been extended … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}