" it’s a score that a never-explained set of network services calculate by directly polling the minds of the people who know about you and your works, reducing

" it’s a score that a never-explained set of network services calculate by directly polling the minds of the people who know about you and your works, reducing their private views to a number. The number itself is idiosyncratic, though: for me, your Whuffie reflects how respected you are by the people I respect. Someone else would get a different Whuffie score when contemplating you and your worthiness. " This is exactly what i'e designed with github.com/neyer/respect It's basically the same as pagerank, but it has an important feature that the author doesn't seem to have considered. Look at the notion of 'soundness of respect' in my code, and see how different it is from anything out there. It provides multiple parties who aren't directly part of a conflict with an incentive to find a resolution. > Gamergate could use to destroy your’s employment and personal life, possibly permanently, just by mass-one-starring you. This is specially what the respect matrix works against; people who one starred someone else for spurious reasons end up dinging _themselves_ if they are at all connected, which the social graph says we all are. You'll lower your soundness score if you give someone else a shitty rating, and yet you have an implied positive rating through other links.