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I feel like Hacker News is one of the only online communities I've participated in where the score is handled appropriately. It's a good personal measure of how
by zeta0134 9y ago
I feel like Hacker News is one of the only online communities I've participated in where the score is handled appropriately. It's a good personal measure of how well my posts and comments were received by the community, but it's not bragging rights. No one else can see my vote tallies here, so I have no real incentive to increase it.
I've seen this affect sites like Stack Overflow as well. At the bottom of any popular question are usually very low-effort answers from posters who really shouldn't have answered at all. I wonder if it's an example of their otherwise well-executed reputation system creating noise that might have been avoided.
- jalfresi 9y agoOut of curiosity, does any one know of any research or articles into reputation systems in general?
- dredmorbius 9y agoRandy Farmer's "Building Web Reputation Systems" is a good start: http://buildingreputation.com http://buildingreputation.com There's a blog, book, and wiki. Some keyword searches: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3A+online+reputation+systems&qt=results_page http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3A+online+reputation+sys... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=online%20reputation%20systems&btnG=Search&as_sdt=800000000001&as_sdtp=on https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=online%20reputation%20s...