I have dedicated a good amount of time this semester to supporting technology and production with Slope Media Group. This group consists of managers, creative directors, content producers, and techies that work together to report and entertain Cornellians. There are certain key players that have and/or are currently helping Slope Media Group stay alive through the past four years. Establishing a reputation system where positive rep credits could be aggregated might be a clear useful way of establishing a reputation system. This reputation system would be a count of rep credits gained. The rules for gaining rep credits would be established as part of the organizational constitution and agreed upon by all members. Exemplary situations for gaining credits include:
- troubleshooting and fixing a technical radio problem.
- documenting troubleshooting tips for a technical radio problem.
- contributing to the creation of a magazine layout.
- contributing to a bug fix on slopemedia.org
These points would be updated in a central database. Then, each person's profile would indicate their rep credits for the life of the organization. In this way, awareness would be raised about the added value of each member. Of course, it is possible that this system be manipulated just as easy as any hacker would manipulate a vulnerable database. But within the organization, it would occur only with changes to the constitution by a majority member vote.
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For your reputation system, who votes on each members’ reputation? I see that the constitution would determine the voting process, but what is the voting process you decided on? Is trust required for the voting process? If the president of the group were to be responsible for voting, rather than all members, I think that manipulation of the system would be less common. Also, if a member did troubleshoot and fix a technical radio problem or contributing to the creation of a magazine layout, how would other members know this if this is the behavior members are voting on?
ReplyDeleteIt seems like this might have some privacy implications. Would every employee be able to see the credits of other employees? I think if this were the case, tension might start to build between employees and an unhealthy competition might form. I'm not saying it would happen, but employees might try to undermine other employees in order to seek some rewards. Or perhaps they would start analyzing each others work constantly to find mistakes in it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like gaps might open up if some employees were clearly better than others and a hierarchy might form. Maybe it'd be better to have a slightly more ambiguous system, like employee of the month. That way, people could know who was doing a good job without really seeing who was the "worst".