Giving someone cred means trusting that person with Jyte.
By
Rorek
on February 03, 2007
We are planning to add functionality to let users with cred points have more powers, including "yellow flagging" claims and editing tags wiki style. Thus, do not give cred to jerks.
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Discussion (8)
If you've given someone cred that you now regret, remove the tags you gave them cred with from the list and the cred will be removed. We're working on a better interface for this.
Giving someone cred means making a statement about that person, and will continue to until it is engineered such that users have some sort of encouragement to only give cred to those they trust
My worry is that people will become hesitant to give cred, not realizing that it can be taken away as easily as it can be given. I'm running under the assumption that jyte's cred system is meant to mimic whuffle, and my perception of whuffle is that it's much less stagnant than this claim suggests that you want it. Hmm, maybe the problem here is me.
So, hows the 'yellow flagging' going
Like many of our feature ideas, we're just not sure about the interface yet.
"collusion" cred worries me in this context.
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collusion cred is brilliant because it tags the kind of cred it is. It'd be nice if each user could choose a 'cred score' scheme, where different kinds of cred were valued differently, so I might choose a scheme that values collusion cred negatively, or an atheist might choose a scheme that values religious cred negatively, and I could choose some other kinds of cred, like 'caring' to be valued particularly highly because I particularly like caring people.
True, but you have to be careful. You can get "religion" or "religions" cred for knowing a lot about the subject regardless of belief. That can mess someone up in either direction.
Since cred other people give, not you giving, can be defined by them, you should try to use such powers lightly (in my opinion) if we ever get them.
Does "bad spelling" mean you do it or know a lot about it? To use the negative cred example. If I know a lot about internet trolling, I may be a great person with "troll" or "trolling" cred.