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Reputation requires identity. I'd need to know people are who they say they are. This is still hard to do. You ain't getting reputation and privacy.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
Reputation requires identity. I'd need to know people are who they say they are. This is still hard to do. You ain't getting reputation and privacy.
- arnaudsm 2y agoPseudonyms are anonymous yet can still build trust. I appreciate anonymity when I want to talk about sensitive topics.
- mc32 2y agoAnonymous reputation can turn on those who trust the reputable entity. Easy, though facile, examples are the romantic schemes used to defraud, more intricate are spies and so on.
- arnaudsm 2y agoIn a small communities, newcomers are more scrutinized to prevent that. And the scammer can only have a single victim before being expelled. HN, while being large, incentivizes that brilliantly, by highlighting new accounts in green.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoYou can't expel people without proper identity. If you kick out a scammer they can keep coming back with different names/identities.
- SoftTalker 2y agoIf you can't put your real name on your opinion, what is it really worth?
- RiverCrochet 2y agoIf I can build reputation somewhere, I'm going to use the same account, but that account may not have my real name. Reputation incentivizes identity, but not necessarily association to a real identity.
- caust1c 2y agoI think trust and identity are fundamentally intertwined, for sure. I think it's also why trust can be easily gamed by posing as certain identity groups. It's a dark path taken to the extreme. I just read supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg and one of the best take aways from it was to remind people that they have multiple identities that they hold dear, and some of them may be in conflict. It gets people to think more and not regress to knee-jerk beliefs they think they're supposed to hold based on their identity on a given topic.