just to get a rep

grumblemouse just mailed me this. some nice insight by yahoo into reputations and social structures:

"A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a social system."

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/parent.php?pattern=reputation