The Hypothes.is Reputation Workshop

"On February 22nd through the 24th 2012, fifty world leaders in reputation modeling, distributed systems, identity, language, and economics gathered at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California, to think through the challenges of designing a global annotation platform."

  1. The day before and morning of ...
  2. 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.
  3. The distinguished guests gather in the Golden Gate room at the Fort Mason center in San Francisco, California. Hypothes.is founder Dan Whaley speaks to the task at hand: how should we build a peer-review layer for the whole web?
  4. RT @azaroth42: Amazing group assembled by @dwhly at #repcon from PLoS to Reddit and Wikipedia, Arkansas to Zurich, new startups to Adobe....
  5. Stance in communication fundamental for processing annotations at aggregate level. (see for eg gradschoolnotes.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/the… ) #repcon
  6. Made it to #repcon. I'm already learning things. This explains the goals of my visit. readwriteweb.com/archives/a_pro…
  7. 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. 
  8. @codinghorror showing us Area51 where members lobby for new sites. Vote for library and info science! bit.ly/abYHeX #repcon
  9. High Rep on Stack Exchange doesn't necessarily make a good moderator, says @codinghorror but adding badges helps #repcon
  10. Atwood: Reputation on various Stack Exchange sites is kept separate. An expert developer isn't necessarily an expert on bicycles. #repcon
  11. Give someone superman privileges without instructions on how to use them and they'll start smashing into buildings @codinghorror at #repcon
  12. Some Stackoverflow users have visited the site 1,000 consecutive days or more. Got the FANATIC badge. :) #repcon
  13. The general manager of Reddit, Erik Martin, stopped by to share hard lessons they've learned about online communities.  
  14. #reddit makes lots of the "mistakes" in developing community. Allows multiple anon accounts, loose moderation, but it still works. #repcon
  15. #reddit enabled communities to edit the CSS which enabled them to structure comments and reputation in relevant ways #repcon
  16. wow – @hueypriest showcasing Snack Exchange, a thriving community of snack trading individuals powered by reddit #repcon

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