The problem, insofar as it is one (which isn't far at all though I think it is worth mentioning,) is that, on occasion, someone says something in the CB that I think is worth an upvote. The only way I could give them one is to find and upvote some random node of theirs that I wouldn't upvote otherwise.

This solution isn't very good for a couple of reasons. I'd have to work to find a node of theirs I haven't voted on previously. Then I'd want to be read it and see if I think I should give it an upvote on its own merits rather than something entirely separate spoken in the CB. Finally, I'd have my doubts as to whether I should upvote a node which, in my opinion, doesn't deserve it because then its reputation is increased and that presumably says something about the node rather than the author.

My proposal would be to have a sort of special personal reputation node that people could vote on. It would have to be special in that it would have to be "reset" every so often (perhaps daily) so that people could re-vote on it. It also wouldn't make sense for such nodes to show up in the best or worst lists. Maybe the running total of the rep could be kept in addition to the daily rep... and maybe this functionality could be rolled into the home node somehow.

Of course, I have no idea how this might be done or how difficult it would be to do it. Has anyone else thought about this?

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Personal Reputation? by sauoq

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