Dr. Moonthunder
07-05-2007, 01:41 PM
This is a "you know what'd be cool?" idea.
Shannon's work on ratings and Shirky's (http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) discussion of reputation in social networks got me thinking. In a perfect world, everybody should be able to "rate the raters" for their own future reference so that their personal level of trust in another forum member is readily available.
Being able to assign positive or negative "marks" to another user would be a good basic beginning. These marks would of course be visible only to you, not to other users or to the person being marked. Someone thinks, "Man, that Dr. Moonthunder must've drinking too much of his namesake (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=5874.0). He talked up Hex, so I watched an episode, and that's an hour of my life I'll never get back!" So he gives me a blackspot. I may look at one of that guy's posts, think, "Hey, this guy's hat for d02 know no limit, too!" and give him a thumbs-up.
The pie-in-sky implementation would tabulate, using perhaps an electronic brain, where two users' tastes converge and diverge, based on their input. A geekHarmony, if you will, to guide your future reading and viewing.
Shannon's work on ratings and Shirky's (http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html) discussion of reputation in social networks got me thinking. In a perfect world, everybody should be able to "rate the raters" for their own future reference so that their personal level of trust in another forum member is readily available.
Being able to assign positive or negative "marks" to another user would be a good basic beginning. These marks would of course be visible only to you, not to other users or to the person being marked. Someone thinks, "Man, that Dr. Moonthunder must've drinking too much of his namesake (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=5874.0). He talked up Hex, so I watched an episode, and that's an hour of my life I'll never get back!" So he gives me a blackspot. I may look at one of that guy's posts, think, "Hey, this guy's hat for d02 know no limit, too!" and give him a thumbs-up.
The pie-in-sky implementation would tabulate, using perhaps an electronic brain, where two users' tastes converge and diverge, based on their input. A geekHarmony, if you will, to guide your future reading and viewing.