Reputation Documents and WikiPedia

[douglas_reay]

Bayle Shanks wrote about a proposed distributed reputation document standard, which I found very interesting. But I think the way 'reputation type' is handled needs more thought. Specifically, I think it would be useful to be able to link not just to a person and a type of reputation, but to a specific action, role, judgement or opinion

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Re: balkanization is not good

[douglas_reay]

I agree that reputation needs to leak between subjects. But how much is not a simple issue.

Suppose Bill writes great reviews of blues music. Do I assume that he writes equally good reviews of jazz music? About films of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas? About Agatha Christie novels? About places to hire power drills in Edinburgh?

I think to assume Bill is equally good at all these would be simplistic. How much 'leakage' should be under the control of the end user. Each user should be able to specify for themselves how much they want Bill's reputation to carry over between areas, and for that to happen there needs to be a link to the context of the original statements of reputation.