One of the most important parts of our design is the reputation model that will underpin the system. A reputation model is a way for a user community to collectively regulate and calibrate the contributions of its members. This is a well-established field of study, encompassing many years of academic research and with numerous examples of working systems deployed in the real world.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation we hosted a Workshop on February 22-24, 2012 in San Francisco at the Fort Mason Center, in order to share with and learn from key members of the academic, nonprofit, and commercial sectors who research and use reputation systems. View the attendee list.

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The day before and morning of …

The workshop website, attendee list, and agenda.  We’d like to thank the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their generous support that made it all possible.

The distinguished guests gather in the Golden Gate room at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. Hypothesis founder Dan Whaley speaks to the task at hand: how should we build a peer-review layer for the whole web?

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Day One of the conference was loaded with informative, thought-provoking presentations by experts from the academic and commercial worlds. Jeff Atwood, Cofounder of StackOverflow, was first up to share his experience and insight into the dynamics of reputation system.

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The general manager of Reddit, Erik Martin, stopped by to share hard lessons they’ve learned about online communities.

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Then it was time to hear from a few of the most respected, and most cited, researchers in the field of reputation, Karl Aberer and Chris Dellarocas.

Dario Taraborelli, Wikipedia researcher, with a link to the book that Professor Dellarocas mentioned (co-authored by advisor Dr. Paul Resnick)

A session on identity followed, with presentations by Drummond Reed, Kaliya Hamlin, and an overview of Wikitrust by Luca de Alfaro.

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Reputation topic still ticking in everyone’s brain that day after all presentations are over:

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Day Two begins with one of the field’s most well known names, Professor Paul Resnick of the University of Michigan.

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Open Space sessions: tell the group what you want to talk about, then post it up on the wall!

We might want to know:

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At the end of Day Two, we passed the microphone so everyone had a chance to tell the group what they learned from the day’s interactions.

John DuBois begins Day Three.

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John Perry Barlow, Hypothesis Board Member and EFF Co-founder, provides the closing remarks for the workshop.

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The syntheses start to roll in…

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Our highlight reel of the whole event…

The list of attendees with Twitter accounts…