Reputation

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Nov 18 02:48:37 UTC 2009


On a closely related note, many sites have asked us to add "sign up 
date" as well as other reputation attributes to our OpenID service, 
mostly for anti-abuse purposes. This would be a useful AX attribute, 
especially if OPs are willing to standardize on this.

Allen

Chris Messina wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Christian Crumlish <xian at pobox.com 
> <mailto:xian at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     it almost seems like its own namespace
>
>     -x-
>
>     p.s.: see
>     also http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputation/
>
>
> Well, I think what Monica is talking about are more like "stats" than 
> reputation.
>
> Not all services count such things, but many could provide an 
> aggregate count as to the number of friends or contacts someone has, 
> or the number of fans or followers they've accrued. Twitter, Facebook, 
> or Amazon might also provide the number of lists they've made (for 
> Amazon, it'd be wishlists), or other stats.
>
> I wouldn't call this "reputation" because of the weight (and near 
> impossibility) of the subject matter — especially when applying it to 
> two disjoint social contexts.
>
> I think this at least bears inspection as Twitter is providing this 
> information. For now, I've created a page on the wiki to explore this 
> topic further:
>
> https://activitystreams.pbworks.com/Stats
>
> Chris
>
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