Examples
- Ebay has a seller rating that attempts to represent trustworthiness of a seller. A negative rating of 1% can decrease the selling price of an item by 4%.
- Google's PageRank is a measure of popularity of a site, and for individual blogs, gives a rating of this, and as a result, of the bloggers themselves.
- Technorati has an authority rating based on incoming links to blogs that it has found in its Blogosphere
- This has been more coarsely defined as A, B, or C-list blogger rating.
- Friday Cities online community: users are given points for contributions. The points have tangible value because if a user accumulates enough 'Kudos' he may receive a free premium membership for a year.
- Slashdot's karma mechanism
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