Reputation
A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a social system.
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The designer needs to match the reputation system to the community's degree of competitiveness.
Participants in a community need some way to gauge their own personal development within that community.
Participants in a community need some way to gauge how far they've progressed within that community.
Some participants in communities respond to opportunities to collect and display awards.
In highly competitive communities, users may want to compare their performance against that of their peers.
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