Thursday, May 04, 2006

Identity and Reputation and Opinion

Johannes likes Phil Windley's distinction between identity and reputation:

Identity is my story about me.

Reputation is your story about me.


I think this is a bit of an over simplification in that it doesn't capture the collective aspect of reputation. I'd say that a single user's 'story about me' is opinion rather than reputation. It only becomes reputation when combined with the opinions of others.

So, my mod would be:

Identity is my story about me.

Opinion is your story about me.

Reputation is the aggregation of the opinion of a number of others.

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