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A question I'd have is when is reputation more sticky? When you have small pieces of information about another person and don't really know them outside of that
by true_religion 14y ago
A question I'd have is when is reputation more sticky? When you have small pieces of information about another person and don't really know them outside of that 1 dimension? Or when you have a holistic image of them yet for one reason or another its tilted towards like or dislike?
For example, I think in small towns the pariahs and those dubbed 'weird' have a harder time getting rid of their reputation and there was always far more pressure to conform than there is today.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI would imagine the holistic image would be more sticky since that is the one more likely to be shared by a large number of people and is usually the more "exciting" view. When you become well known in a small town for some particular thing which may give you a bad reputation you have the option to move away or wait for time to fade that reputation somewhat. On the internet there will be hard evidence in existence for perpetuity.