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With more information going around the internet, how to identify hoaxes and false reporting.

by hdra 11y ago

dredmorbius 11y ago
I've just discovered there's a book addressing part of that problem: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780596159795-0 http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780596159795-0 Blog: http://buildingreputation.com/ http://buildingreputation.com/ Wiki: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php
- rndn 11y ago
  Online reputation seems problematic to me, because it can be tricked relatively easily. In many systems, online reputation tends to be a function of dedication and time investment rather than ability, and asynchronous communication, anonymity and technological opacity and valnurability are also possible hurdles. Perhaps the problem is even AI-complete. I'm wondering if one could somehow recover reputation from the real world to online platforms. I think real-world reputation can work extremely well when things are transparent to many people who can construct a coherent mental representation of you and can thus approve of your abilities with high reliability. It creates certain social incentives and pressures which I think are hard to replicate with the current means online.
  - dredmorbius 11y ago
    I absolutely agree that the problem is hard. That's actually part of the point of the reference. It's not just a set of cookbook recipies for "here's how to implement a reputation system", but an exploration of goals, challenges, and other aspects. It includes discussion of multiple issues I've considered on the topic, including overt vs. implicit actions, goals of the moderation system, Sturgeon's Law, and more. That is: the reference is worthwhile for identifying the scope and dimensions of the problem space, and is a record of and reference for those issues. Real-world reputation is also a hard problem. The book itself starts with one of the more significant and widely experienced such reputation systems, the FICO score. Understand too: transparency isn't something you can just prescribe by dictate. People and organizations have desires for secrecy, privacy, and some measure of forgiveness for past actions and behaviors. Justifiably in some cases, not so much in others. It's not as if real-world or online reputation systems are simple. They're not. But they're also not distinct.

With more information going around the internet, how to identify hoaxes and false reporting.

by hdra 11y ago

With more information going around the internet, how to identify hoaxes and false reporting.

I've just discovered there's a book addressing part of that problem: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780596159795-0 http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780596159795-0 Blog: http://buildingreputation.com/ http://buildingreputation.com/ Wiki: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php

rndn 11y ago
Online reputation seems problematic to me, because it can be tricked relatively easily. In many systems, online reputation tends to be a function of dedication and time investment rather than ability, and asynchronous communication, anonymity and technological opacity and valnurability are also possible hurdles. Perhaps the problem is even AI-complete. I'm wondering if one could somehow recover reputation from the real world to online platforms. I think real-world reputation can work extremely well when things are transparent to many people who can construct a coherent mental representation of you and can thus approve of your abilities with high reliability. It creates certain social incentives and pressures which I think are hard to replicate with the current means online.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  I absolutely agree that the problem is hard. That's actually part of the point of the reference. It's not just a set of cookbook recipies for "here's how to implement a reputation system", but an exploration of goals, challenges, and other aspects. It includes discussion of multiple issues I've considered on the topic, including overt vs. implicit actions, goals of the moderation system, Sturgeon's Law, and more. That is: the reference is worthwhile for identifying the scope and dimensions of the problem space, and is a record of and reference for those issues. Real-world reputation is also a hard problem. The book itself starts with one of the more significant and widely experienced such reputation systems, the FICO score. Understand too: transparency isn't something you can just prescribe by dictate. People and organizations have desires for secrecy, privacy, and some measure of forgiveness for past actions and behaviors. Justifiably in some cases, not so much in others. It's not as if real-world or online reputation systems are simple. They're not. But they're also not distinct.