Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

[Sunder]

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.

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Marcel Popescu wrote:

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