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An independent service that publicly rates a person's credibility and consistency (maybe other metrics such as honesty or accuracy) objectively into a reputatio

by canvia 12y ago

An independent service that publicly rates a person's credibility and consistency (maybe other metrics such as honesty or accuracy) objectively into a reputation score. You would start out rating people for free, probably celebrities, prominent politicians, persons of note in scientific fields, journalists, etc. These would have to be thoroughly documented profiles with established public criteria for the scores in 100% transparency. Once you have established a reputation for accuracy you can start to charge other people to have their score calculated and added to the reputation index. Maybe have a public poll for who to profile next and do several for free each month. Basically a ratings agency or better business bureau type system but for individuals who want to be public figures and people of influence. Part of it would be validating the person's real life identity and the online personas that the person uses so that online exchanges (ratings, discussions, reviews, etc.) could potentially be filtered for only validated real individuals if desired.

Klinky 12y ago
This is very costly to do. Listen to a political candidate's speech, then try to validate what they are saying on your own. It's incredibly time consuming. A ratings service that relies on the person being rated to pay results in conflicts of interest. You will also find it hard to have anyone want to pay for anything that might be critical of them. A service that did this would require a strong guiding mission, because it's cheaper to shill blog spam than to actually dig in and do accurate research while citing sources.
- iopq 12y ago
  It should be a crowd-sourced service like Yelp where people rate individuals and individuals get a star rating from 1 to 5 stars.
  - joshred 12y ago
    That would be a popularity contest, not a fact checking service.
- 33W 12y ago
  What about a solution using a crowd like Mechanical Turk and just presenting a de-contexted quote? This could be presented in a couple of ways: Is this fact correct? or Does this statement seem correct? Then present a phrase: "There are less than 10,000 troops in Afghanistan."
inthewoods 12y ago
This is somewhat related - tracks predictions by various sources to assess creditability: http://www.pundittracker.com/ http://www.pundittracker.com/

by canvia 12y ago

Klinky 12y ago

This is very costly to do. Listen to a political candidate's speech, then try to validate what they are saying on your own. It's incredibly time consuming. A ratings service that relies on the person being rated to pay results in conflicts of interest. You will also find it hard to have anyone want to pay for anything that might be critical of them. A service that did this would require a strong guiding mission, because it's cheaper to shill blog spam than to actually dig in and do accurate research while citing sources.

iopq 12y ago
It should be a crowd-sourced service like Yelp where people rate individuals and individuals get a star rating from 1 to 5 stars.
- joshred 12y ago
  That would be a popularity contest, not a fact checking service.
33W 12y ago
What about a solution using a crowd like Mechanical Turk and just presenting a de-contexted quote? This could be presented in a couple of ways: Is this fact correct? or Does this statement seem correct? Then present a phrase: "There are less than 10,000 troops in Afghanistan."

inthewoods 12y ago

This is somewhat related - tracks predictions by various sources to assess creditability: http://www.pundittracker.com/ http://www.pundittracker.com/