WhuffieRank
In the post-scarcity society of Cory Doctorow’s fun Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom (which you can read for free), money has been replaced by whuffie WP: a reputation-based currency, an ubiquitous measure of how much other people like you. Now, of course, PageRank WP comes immediately to mind, no? (And here’s a good post linking both.) But the main difference till now was that whuffie was instantly viewable by anyone (through brain implants!) and PageRank is just a behind-the-scenes measure (though of course tremendously important).
No more. I installed Firefox Extension Search Status in a flight of fancy but it has become second nature to me to look down and right at the status bar icon where PageRank (and Alexa WP Traffic) is displayed. We are social animals after all.
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i-d guess that works exactly the same for comments for specific persons, right now, Bere (15) is slightly more popular than Ben (14)
Well, no. I write stuff here because I want to tell it to the world, then I think which of my friends might be interested in it and I tag it for them. It’s not the other way round (for when it is, I rather send you an email).
So, if I had to give isolated meaning to that single number it would be closer to how much I think that person would like what I write here.Now the tricky thing is that the more I talk and argue and share with someone the more I realize all that we have in common and the more we think up things together. So in that sense, in the sense of how my judgement of you is inherently biased and refined by our time together, it could be a weird, distorted measure of our time together intersected with what I write here.
And the final factor to consider is my irrationality in tagging. My idea right now is just to tag the posts away and whittle things later.