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A reputation system is a program or algorithm that allow users of an online community to rate each other in order to build trust through reputation.Some common uses of these systems can be found on E-commerce websites such as eBay, Amazon.com, and Etsy as well as online advice communities such as Stack Exchange. [1]
On Stack Exchange, users are officially ranked by "reputation," a score which loosely measures the value each user creates for the site. Beyond a certain level, users are effectively regarded as minor deities and relative differences in rep become less important. Of course, all users are still accountable for their actions.
Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers. It is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network. [2] [3] [4] It was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. [5] [6] It features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics.
The primary purpose of each Stack Exchange site is to enable users to post questions and answer them. [16] Users can vote on both answers and questions, and through this process users earn reputation points, a form of gamification. [22] [52] This voting system was compared to Digg when the Stack Exchange platform was first released. [14]
A question and answer system (or Q&A system) is an online software system that attempts to answer questions asked by users.Q&A software is frequently integrated by large and specialist corporations and tends to be implemented as a community that allows users in similar fields to discuss questions and provide answers to common and specialist questions.
From 2008 to 2014, Atwood and Spolsky published a weekly podcast covering the progress on Stack Exchange and a wide range of software development issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference. [11] In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his ...
Reputation capital is the quantitative measure of some entity's reputational value in some context – a community or marketplace. [ citation needed ] In the world of Web 2.0 , what is increasingly valuable is trying to measure the effects of collaboration and contribution to community.
Reputation is a social construct based on the opinion other people hold about a person or thing. Before the internet was developed, consumers wanting to learn about a company had fewer options. They had access to resources such as the Yellow Pages, but mostly relied on word-of-mouth. A company's reputation depended on personal experience.