The Omidyar Network reputation system is a new experiment in designing the social architecture of an online social network. We’ll check back in a year and see how the architecture has influenced the Omidyar Network online community.
Something tells me that the $25,000 offered by the network to its members, to do whatever they agree to do, will energize the experiment.
When you join omidyar.net, you start with a feedback bank of 10 points. Your feedback bank can be given away, one point at a time, as either positive feedback or negative feedback to any member, workspace or discussion.As you use omidyar.net, your feedback bank will increase, based on how you use omidyar.net, and what you do. You basically get more “credit” in your feedback bank the more you contribute. If you simply “lurk,” which means you don’t ever post a comment or start a discussion, etc., your feedback bank will grow far more slowly. If you are an active discussion participant, and you contribute to a group’s workspace, your feedback bank will grow more quickly. In fact, even the act of giving feedback will help your feedback bank grow. If someone gives you positive feedback, both your score and your feedback bank will increase by one.
Bank Cap: Your feedback bank is capped at three times your feedback score. When you start on omidyar.net, your feedback bank is at 10 points and it will not grow above the 10 point threshold until your feedback score is four (4) or higher.There are also some things on omidyar.net that will cost you points from your feedback bank besides just giving them to people or objects.
* creating a new group on omidyar.net costs 10 points
* creating a new discussion on omidyar.net costs 1 point
* creating a workspace or adding a comment to and existing discussion are FREEThe size of each members’ feedback bank is displayed on their profile for anyone to see. On the profile, the first line of information below the member’s name includes the member’s feedback bank size.
You can check the size of your own feedback bank at any time by looking at your name in the green bar at the top of any page. The size of your feedback bank appears in the parentheses to the right of your feedback score.
The Omidyar Network reputation system is a new experiment in designing the social architecture of an online social network. We’ll check back in a year and see how the architecture has influenced the Omidyar Network online community.
Something tells me that the $25,000 offered by the network to its members, to do whatever they agree to [...]
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@ 19:42
Omidyar Network cooperation experiments, reputation system
Smart MobsOmidyar Network cooperation experiments, reputation system The Omidyar Network reputation system is a new experiment in designing the social architecture of an online social network. We’ll check back in a year and see how the architecture has…
@ 17:36
It’s a first step. However, I feel that there are several areas that have not been considered in the above mathematics:
Oh, for singularity.
@ 12:07
Good questions!
@ 18:52
I think the idea of the rating scheme is so spammers and quantity-over quantity types are downgraded, and thus their posts count for less. I am certainly interested in how it turns out, despite the fact that I will not participate.
@ 21:24
One thing that Slashdot proved is that a rating system can get the bad stuff out of your sight, but doesn’t necessarily raise the level of discourse. The Omidyar Network system is an experiment in progress. Let’s see how it looks in a few months.
@ 07:42
Omidyar Network is most definitely an experiment in process; I would invite the folks in this community to join in shaping it.
@ 19:31
The Omidyar Network
Omidyar.net, a community created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is using a new reputation system to experiment with social currency in online communities. Smart Mobs points to the details on the feedback plan. I wrote the above a few weeks…