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-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Marcel Popescu wrote:

From: "Sunder" <sunder@sunder.net>

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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/does write kooky messages, but at least they're funny...)

I think this is pretty much known behavior: reputation is more easily lost than gained ("one angry customer tells other nine" and so on).

Mark