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Re: reputation.com: has the revolution started already?

profiledefenders — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:29:58 GMT

So do you think that online reputation management firms like reputation.com and us profiledefenders.com do more harm than good to society?

What about situations where a good citizen was falsely accused of doing something wrong and was acquited but yet the search results still remained and that was prohibiting them from bettering their life?

Re: reputation.com: has the revolution started already?

Merlin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:29:24 GMT

Credit rating is already there. If companies, and I mean all of them (banks, credit cards, insurers, arbitrators, even chambers of commerce) could get to a single rating scale, it would indeed be a huge leaf forward. I suspect this is coming sooner rather than later.

Re: reputation.com: has the revolution started already?

John James — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:34:07 GMT

I know someone who would think so...

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reputation.com: has the revolution started already?

Alternatives Considered — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:01:30 GMT

Ok, not really, but geez it's hard not to see something like reputation.com and think how such a thing would be in major play in an AnCap society... And there are interesting ramifactions here, as this is essentially a business that helps people manipulate their reputation. In an AnCap society in which reputation will play such a major role, is there any doubt that there will be fierce measure/counter-measure battles between services that keep track of reputations and those that attempt to manipulate them?