reputation

How to implement a reputation system like Stack Overflow?

I've been looking into implementing a Stackoverflow-like site (for a completely different area of knowledge) for a little bit now, and I have a question on what people think is the best way to implement reputation for a system like this. Of course, that's a broad topic, so here are some specific questions that I have: Calculation of R...

Implement reputation system at DB level?

I'm trying to design/implement a reputation system for a website i'm coding with ASP MVC + entity framework and was wondering if it would be a good idea to write all the logic for the reputation system into StoredProcs insted of doing coding it into the application model. Personally i try to avoid using stored procedures as much as i c...

An algorithm for distributed or decentralised reputation/trust

Does anyone know of an algorithm for computing how much you 'trust' another user (their reputation) in a decentralised system. Sites like this one use a centralised authority to track reputation points, but when you can't trust an authority to maintain this list impartially, or the infrastructure doesn't exist, how can you rank your pee...

Can my user log in and show their reputation?

Hi there guys and gals. We just started a new hosted wordpress blog. And since we have a log in system, we wondered if we could tie in a reputation system with it. We aren't that much into technical wizzardry... so any help will be appreciated! ...

Reputation and point system models

I'm looking to implement a reputation-based point system for a QA site. I like Stack Overflow's model, but I was wondering if there's anything else like this out there. I was doing some research on the web, but couldn't find a good compiled list of reputation models. If there's a study of reputation models with pros and cons, that would ...

Karma/reputation system

I've been creating a reddit-like site based on a very good article about popularity algorithms. I think I'm going quite well, the site's looking good and the implementation is working. What I'm missing is a karma or reputation algorithm. Much like SO, I have in mind implementing certain privileges for the best users. Do you have an ide...

Karma/Reputation Plugin for Ruby on Rails?

I am looking for a karma (reputation) plugin or gem for Ruby on Rails. Preferably one that was integrated many of the best practices and research around the topic of community management & development. Any recommendations? ...

Calculating normalized karma

How could I calculate a normalized value of karma (value between 0 and 1), from the karma of users in my system? The normalized value should reflect the value of the user's karma relative to all other users. I think I would probably have to include the average and standard deviations of all karma's somehow, but I can't seem to come up ...

I'm designing a game for my forum. Not very sure about my strategy...

I have a small community of members inside a forum. For the sake of entertainment, I a planning to introduce a small game based on reputations. The idea is that send updates to a user (X) about another user (Y) based on how much X ranks Y. This is just a fun game, but the way I thought of implementing it was in one of the following ways:...

open source reputation system framework

any web reputation framework to recommend for java developer? ...

What Data structure for Reputation Rules in C# (like stackoverflow)

I am currently building a system which will have entities that will have scores like reputation etc.. I will have a service that will check for certain rules having been triggered, and will perform certain logic if they are triggered. Previously I have used say an Enum for doing this when I have only had to store an id and a descriptio...

Is there a reputation friendly outbound mail agent for linux?

I have a web app that's emailing to a fair number of new and existing users. I'm looking for a simple way to ensure that my site's reputation doesn't get unnecessarily hurt in a way which will decrease deliverability with ISPs or popular web mails. Typical scenarios I want to prevent: trying to email to an address from which an email...

Best way to implement Stackoverflow-style reputation

I'm implementing a Stackoverflow-like reputation system on my rap lyrics explanation site, Rap Genius: Good explanation: +10 Bad explanation: -1 Have the most explanations on a song: +30 My question is how to implement this. Specifically, I'm trying to decide whether I should create a table of reputation_events to aid in reputation r...

is thier a toturial or open source for implenting badges like stack overflow?

i was trying to implement the a badgeing system or a web reputation feature into my app, and i was wondering how to go about it!! i still cnt get my head around how it works!! so if theres any toturials out thier of how i can implent ir or some sort of framework that i can use to inject into my app? thanks ...