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buildingreputation.com is a personal blog at buildingreputation.com about design and web. Since 2009, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Building Web Reputation Systems”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Randy Farmer's blog on online reputation systems, a companion to his book Building Web Reputation Systems. It is valued for ideas on karma, points systems and rating design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Building Web Reputation Systems5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-12-27
- On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-02-18
- The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma"3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-10-08
- [O'Reilly Book] Building Web Reputation Systems - Online Book Draft3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-08
What Hacker News says?
Here's a story about The Sims Online I posted a few years ago, in which I described making a maze solving bot to quickly and automatically generate millions of Simoleons, and an ad-hoc solution to the delivery problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730181 I wrote a bot for The Sims Online that manufactured Simoleons, then repurposed it to catalog and describe objects in the game for you with a speech synthe…
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on ““Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs”Submitted The Dollhouse Mafia, or "Don't Display Negative Karma" as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI'm playing by ear, but the one thing that stands out after reading the book is the display of karma (user / comment / post scores). One thing the book emphasizes is that if you display karma prominently, users will feel motivated to perform actions that will improve their numbers. This means perhaps going for a witty one-liner instead of a comment contrary to the community beliefs that could be downvoted into obliv…
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on “Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?”Submitted On Karma: Top-line Lessons on User Reputation Design as a story · 51 points
HN discussionIt's of a very different nature, but that reminds me of another "off by one" fencepost error exploit I encountered in the wild of The Sims Online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error In this earlier post I described making a maze solving bot to quickly and automatically generate millions of Simoleons, and an ad-hoc solution to the delivery problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730181 [...] And t…
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on “OpenTTD 1.10”Submitted Building Web Reputation Systems: On Karma - Lessons on User Reputation Design as a story · 29 points
HN discussionRandy Farmer's "Building Web Reputation Systems" is a good start: http://buildingreputation.com There's a blog, book, and wiki. Some keyword searches: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3A+online+reputation+sys... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=online%20reputation%20s...
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on “Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again”Submitted Building Reputation Systems (wiki for new O'Reilly book) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionGood, qualified, honest reviewers. Hal Varian (UC Berkeley) has some 1990s refs, which remain good. "Grouplens" is the project/product. Randy Farmer literally wrote the book on the topic. There's a book, blog, and wiki. Frankly, Farmer's work, good as it is, largely reinforces my view that Varian captured the essence of the problem, which I've summarised in my opening 'graph. You cannot algorithmically correct for c…
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on “How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)”Submitted Building Web Reputation Systems: Top-Line Lessons on User Reputation Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFirst off, for anyone looking at web reputation systems, read the book on the subject : Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass, Building Web Reputation Systems : Book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596159801.do Wiki: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php Blog: http://buildingreputation.com/ I can pretty much guarantee there are elements of this you're not considering which are addressed there (though there are also ele…
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on “How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)”Submitted [O'Reilly Book] Building Web Reputation Systems - Online Book Draft as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a bot for The Sims Online that manufactured Simoleons, then repurposed it to catalog and describe objects in the game for you with a speech synthesizer. TSO had some ham-fisted money making multi player games that forced players to interact with each other in exchange for Simoleons. One of them was a maze solving game for two players, where one player is lost in the maze and can see the local walls around th…
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on “Bots Are Hot (1996)”Submitted Building Web Reputation Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAll else being equal, people are more likely to follow people who already have lots of followers: there must be something good about their tweets that makes all those people choose to keep following them. The number of followers is the only visible indicator of the "goodness" of an account. It's similar to karma on Hacker News, except that it's impossible to miss because it's prominently displayed. This is probably…
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on “The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business”Submitted The Sensical Moment: Asking for User Opinion When the Time is Right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is a detailed description of the mechanism used in Yahoo! Answers in chapter 10 of the book. You can read the draft text here: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php?id=chapter_10 BTW, everyone keeps assuming that reputation is all about karma. It's not. We cover that in chapter 1 (and over and over again in the rest...) Cheers, Randy Farmer, co-author Building Web Reputation Systems
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on “Online Reputation Systems: how to design one that does what you need”Related: Just yesterday I noticed that OReilly recently published Building Web Reputation Systems (Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159801 http://buildingreputation.com/ Randy was consulting with a company I was at a couple of years ago and while the two of us certainly didn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, it encouraged a lot of thought and debate. I'll be ordering the book today.
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on “Online Reputation Systems: how to design one that does what you need”Original article this is pulled from (uncited in submitted post) http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2009/10/the_dollhouse... It's a little ridiculous that you can quote the meat of an article from another blog, write a short intro sentence , not cite the original and post it as insightful. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he just forgot to post the link to the original
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on “Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds”Interesting, thank you both. I read up on online reputation systems a while back while consulting on a project, and it's been an interest since. This is a worthwhile video to watch on the subject if interested: http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2010/07/5_reputation_...
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on “HN Ignore downvotes CSS”Here's a blog that might be relevant: http://buildingreputation.com/
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on “Ask HN: How to design a karma reward system”I've just discovered there's a book addressing part of that problem: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780596159795-0 Blog: http://buildingreputation.com/ Wiki: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php
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on “Ask HN: What Are the Big Problems?”There's some discussion on that on the website for the book Building Reputations: "Leaderboards Considered Harmful" http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2008/12/leaderboards_...
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on “Don't be a douchebag: Best practices for game mechanics in your web app”"But perhaps Topsy's biggest selling point is what it doesn't do: the service doesn't reveal user scores. That simple, easy to read score - Klout's calling card and biggest selling point - is also its biggest weakness. Obssessing over that number can quicly become addictive - and separated from geniune social influence." Absolutely. This has been known for a long time: http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2010/02/…
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on “Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence ”Best reference I've found: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php
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on “Ask HN: What are various incentive models on the Web?”I think article this may be too sparse in details for a subject that so important. For better resources, please see: http://www.bokardo.com - for design of social interfaces (please read everything you can, it's not that much) and http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php?id=bryce (for reputation systems. Bryce is the man here.)
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on “Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques”I've been reading http://buildingreputation.com/ a lot - partly because I want to build in some reputation concepts into a site I'm working on. It has great ideas about how to run points systems - what causes what behaviour. Very powerful.
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on “Ask HN: The future of HN”
