Ebay ratings for real life

[archerships]

It’d be nice if there was some practical way of rating people for the good and bad things they do each day. I sometimes wonder how often I inadvertently cause people hardship. “Boy, my lifebay ratings are really down today….what happened? Oh, I did run over that old lady in the parking lot. My bad.”

Original: craschworks - comments

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[lds.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow? It's his first book, he distributed it free on the web, and it features a great future universe in which currency is measured in "whuffie," basically a measure of goodwill from the rest of humanity.

You'd really like it, I think.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, I have read that book, but I'd forgotten about whuffie. Thanks for the reminder.

[pasquin.livejournal.com]

I rate you a super Lifebay-er. Five thumbs up!

What would that do to spam?

[danlyke.livejournal.com]

Given that a whole bunch of my spam right now is dedicated to stealing my eBay ratings, wouldn't a large portion of my personal interactions then become fighting off attempts to steal my Lifebay identity?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome. Thumbs up for whuffie.