When reputations systems hurt
By Tim Finin on Saturday, November 12th, 2005 at 11:58 am.Paul Resnick has an interesting post from last year (spotted on populicious) summarizing and commenting on a paper describing a class of situations in which reputation systems are unambiguously bad:
Related posts: • N things to know about the Semantic Web; • New ACM journal on Autonomous Adaptive Systems; • SIGSEMIS v1n3;Ely, Jeffrey C., Fudenberg , Drew and Levine, David K., “When is Reputation Bad?” (May 2004). Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2035. http://ssrn.com/abstract=566822

