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BoxTag is multidimensional karma sytem for comment sections. It will provide advanced reputation management for integration with online publications such as magazines, news sites, blogs, newsletters 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
- Pertinence
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.
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What is the point of Boxtag? Link to heading
The point of Boxtag is to enable a new confidence in social media by providing users a richer karma system than a simple thumbs up and down.
What is the value of Boxtag? Link to heading
Use of Boxtag will give commenters more skin in the game by encouraging them to do more than ‘first’ posts, and actually contribute towards incentives of the different kinds of rewards available to them as commenters and boxtaggers.
What are your expectations of Boxtag? Link to heading
That certain publications will adopt it on top of their comment systems.
What is the market for Boxtag? Link to heading
Everyone who uses Gravatar, Discus, Keybase, Wordpress Identification.
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Individuals could pay for enabling additional features, but the primary cost would be borne by publishers.
How permanent are Boxtag ratings? Link to heading
Boxtag could recycle reputations on a seasonal basis. You can only accomplish a high reputation over time by continued contributions. Seasonal history will be recorded.