Further thoughts on Reputation Capital systems and implementation

[Sunder]

Erm, errata ESC:%s/Mr Measels/mattd/g

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Sunder wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the pointer, a very good essay indeed. :)
> 
> I haven't checked in any meaningful way, but that thread doesn't seem to
> have any replies from Ralph...  Do you recall any details as to what would
> cause oscillations?  Would be interesting to explore this.
> 
> I expect that having a way to prove collusion by checking who praises
> whom, etc. would likely avoid such problems.  As would I suppose personal
> observation of current behavior.
> 
> 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...)