I don't mean to be pushy, but I haven't seen any responses to my idea, and I want to make sure people have seen it, since it contains some elements others haven't brought up. So here it is again; comments are greatly appreciated. :)

Peter

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On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:44 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:

Timwi wrote:

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As has already been said, eBay doesn't have this problem because in order to leave feedback you have to enter a transaction with the other user. Edits don't make a good analogy because it's not a transaction between two users who can then rate each other.

Right, I agree that edits are not a good analogy to transactions. We don't really have anything quite like a transaction.

So how's this: each user gets one "opinion" of each other user. The opinions can be changed at any time. An opinion is positive, negative, or neutral. The individual opinions are private, and accessible only by the users who hold them. This encourages honesty and avoids flame wars. Each user has a reputation rating based on other users' opinions of them. Opinions are weighted: opinions held by users with higher reputations have greater influence.

As a completely separate piece, I don't think that ratings, whatever form they take, should be used to enforce limitations automatically. These just seems too dangerous and un-wiki-like

Peter

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