Actually, people tagging other people is the basis of a reputation system isn't it?
People tagging other people seems like a looser and wider version of an ebay rating systems or similar systems such as advogato peer ratings. A related app I built for a non profit (Nautilus Group www.nautilus.org) allowed them to decide how to create working groups when hosting seminars. Nautilus has a database of a large number of movers and shakers in nuclear non-proliferation and they host seminars where people solve real problems blocking progress in this and other areas. The database of people is annotated by Nautilus staffers with comments like "A likes to work with B" or "C doesn't appear to get along with D" and so on. They use these as hints to create groups in their seminars. This app is, in effect, an interpersonal tagging system. In this case the tags are supplied by third parties, but the tags carry approximately, the opinions of the primary actors. People tagging other people with "opinion tags" or "impression tags" seems to me to create a network of illusions. But we may choose to share our friends illusions and this may be useful, or not. Agreed that implementing this is likely to open a massive can of grief-worms. Nitin Borwankar. On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:02:07 -0400 (EDT), "Joshua Schachter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Seems like a good way to be a griefer. > > -j > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Michael Newton wrote: > > > or, maybe all the tags that anyone has stuck on that user. i think > > this is a great feature idea. > > > > M. > > > > On 6/2/05, Matt MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gotcha makes sense. So maybe it'd be good have that as part of the > >> user interface... when I go to a users homepage it displays the tags > >> that the user has provided for that URI. > >> > >> -matt > >> > >> On 6/2/05, Clay Shirky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> I'm wondering if it would be possible to treat users as any other URI. > >>> > >>> Why not just do exactly that -- I just tagged "http://del.icio.us/cshirky"; > >>> with 'bald impoverished unreliable' -- what other kind of operation do you > >>> need. > >>> > >>> -c > >>> > >>>> I'd like to be able to tag myself, male, husband, software_developer, > >>>> java, photographer... This way I could provide meta data about me > >>>> beyond the tags that I add to a social bookmarking system. > >>>> > >>>> I think this would provide some context to the URI tags that I am > >>>> adding to the system. It would allow me to not only find URL's by tag > >>>> that I am interested in but allow me to narrow the scope of that tag > >>>> to users that are treating that tag in the same context. > >>>> > >>>> Thoughts? > >>>> > >>>> -matt > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> discuss mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Nitin Borwankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
