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3 responses to “Are reputation scores corrosive?”

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   Stuart Bruce

   August 12, 2011 at 8:49 am

   Interesting thoughts and agree with your final thought. It’s definitely worth a look, but don’t rely on it. It’s also interesting to see the difference between Klout and PeerIndex scores which I’ve been watching since I blogged about it last week http://sbpr.co/nka32h My personal Klout score is rocketing, while PeerIndex is falling slightly – all without me changing my behaviour or trying to do anything to ‘game it’.

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   Anonymous

   August 12, 2011 at 9:28 am

   Thanks, Stuart – to borrow from Google’s search method, maybe the best way to think of these scores are “signals of connectedness”, which may be one of a set of “signals of influence”, but never the sole ones. 

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   Phil Szomszor

   August 23, 2011 at 2:49 pm

   I’ve written a few times about Klout and Peer Index, although not used the word “corrosive” before. That’s a very good way of describing it. That said, I’m finding now that colleagues and clients new to social media quite like it and latch on to it as a way of comparing people and working out who’s who. I can see it used more and more as an industry method of evaluation.