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BoxTag is an open comment management system with advanced reputation management for integration with blogging and social networks. It aims to be a competitor to current external comment systems like Discus and Gravatar. The IP is in the presentation and management of scoring mechanisms and in the database design and implementation.

The pitch is simple. It expands on ‘Like’ to add four dimensions of reputation management for more serious bloggers and discussion groups. These four dimensions are:

• Authority
• Agreement
• Emphasis
• Relevance.

These four dimensions can be expanded to more than four, and I expect that such matters will be configurable, but we’ll start with that. It’s not enough to simply like a comment, but to rate a commenter so that commenter reputations may rise.