Reputation systems

Table of contents

Child pages

Related pages

• Stack Overflow

Websites

• Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog

Books

• 2010 - Building Web Reputation Systems
  • http://buildingreputation.com/

Articles / Videos / Discussions

• Stack Overflow
  • 2012.12.01 - CodingHorror - The Organism Will Do Whatever It Damn Well Pleases
  • 2012.02.03 - CodingHorror - Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do
  • Diminishing returns / non-linear reputation from “great” answers
  • Life isn't fair
  • maximum reputation for each question or answer
  • Are reputation points working as intended?
  • Reputation limit per question?
  • Advantage to Old Users
  • About having a maximum reputation for a user and specific questions/answers
  • I still need to read through and summarize these. The discussions look very interesting!
  • One thing I've noticed while using Stack Overflow is that if I edit a question such that it gets more upvotes, I don't see any benefit from that.
    • Example: I edited this question to make it easier to read and improve the formatting.
  • SO is a kind of Wikipedia, in that over time lots of small edits can result in great content.