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[dredmorbius]

The now-defunct Advogato approached the question of reputation by having explicit reputation sources, with its founder the ultimate source.

Raph now works for Google AFAIA.

[marcosdumay → dredmorbius]

Reputation is a lousy replacement for page popularity. When Google started to apply their metrics over an entire domain, they already lost a lot of niche information.

Yes, it's better than nothing, but don't expect it to keep the same quality of results we got earlier. Google killed the golden goose when they decided do concentrate their results on the large sites only, and it will be very hard to make similar algorithms work that well again.

[dredmorbius → marcosdumay]

Pagerank is explicitly a reputation measure. It's proved somewhat manipulable and unreliable.

Levien's reputation graph needn't be slavishly followed, though it does suggest an alternative.