To take this personally, I'm always complaining about rudeness, but I'm plenty rude myself. In fact, a good part of why I did a fork was routine rudeness from Larry Sanger and a few others that no one seemed to ever do anything about. I've managed to keep a somewhat favorable eBay reputation though; partly cause I usually enter negative feedback unless what happened was important. (Retaliatory negative feedback is routine on eBay so warning others needs to be more important in a particular instance than taking a bit of punishment for speaking up)
Fred
From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 05:42:14 -0800 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Trust metrics
I think your point is a good one. A poorly designed system would give rise to fear and paranoia. But, I think that at least some people really *ought* to have a simple check on their behavior, a way for them to look at a number and say "Oh, I've been rude." I think some people are simply lacking in the social skills to know about such things for themselves.