Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

[Adam Shostack]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Sunder wrote:
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| Say Tim has a repcap of 600, say Declan has 500, and Sandy has 400.  Then
| I add +1 * 500/X from Declan's repcap and +1 *400/X to Tim's repcap, so
| now my cache of Tim's repcap might jump to 620.

Interesting idea.  I proposed something very similar in
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/09/msg00313.html Raph
demonstrated a bit later that the system could be forced into
oscilation and had other problems, although that might have been in
person, not on list.

Adam

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