Редактирование: Reputation metrics

'''Reputation metrics''' are systems to measure and track trustworthiness, social capital, popular influence, or other kinds of social value.

== Exisiting Systems ==

Penguincon, an open source and science-fiction convention, uses an informal currency (named 'Whuffie' after [[Cory Doctorow]]'s fiction) to allocate compensation for volunteer work.

The name Whuffie was also used by a 2009 TechCrunch non-profit startup, [[The Whuffie Bank]], which sought to compensate people for making valuable contributions to the Internet.<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/tc50-meet-the-whuffie-a-new-currency-thats-based-on-your-online-reputation/ TC50: Meet The Whuffie, A New Currency That's Based On Your Online Reputation] - Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch (September 15, 2009)</ref>  Intent was detailed in a [http://web.archive.org/web/20120313171148/http://www.thewhuffiebank.org:80/static/manifesto manifesto] posted online.  As of 2012, the company and site are defunct.

<i>The Sims Online</i> had an ingame reputation system, which was heavily abused to extort in-game money from new arrivals.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/nov/11/sims-games-online-reputation A reputation for extortion] - Michael Simon, The Guardian (November 11, 2009)</ref>

== Design Problems and Criticism ==

Algorithmic bias is often pointed to as a major problem with proposed or implemented systems, due to the difficulty of balancing a precise definion of social value with assumptions about what is desirable in pursuit of it.

== In Popular Culture ==

Whuffie, a fictional reputation system used by the post-scarcity Bitchun Society in [[Cory Doctorow]]'s <i>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom</i> and <i>Truncat</i>, is used to allocate resources that are not freely reproducible, such as access to higher-status social spaces.  'Whuffie' is also used in passing to refer to gaining general social goodwill in <i>Eastern Standard Tribe</i>

In <i>Glasshouse</i> by [[Charles Stross]], a social ranking system is used as part of a social control scheme in an isolated community.  Deductions of how the system works lead some to "score-whore" as a strategy, aggressively collaborating to gain higher standing.

== External Links ==

* {{wikipedia|Whuffie}}
* {{wikipedia|Reputation system}}

== References ==
[[Category:Emerging technologies]]
[[Category:Economics]]