[P2P-F] Advice re reputation metrics

Sun Sep 23 21:34:55 CEST 2012

On 23/09/2012 14:15, George Pór wrote:
>
>     Reputation metric makes me squirm.  Any form of Scientific Method
>     and I mean 'Form" that is attempted is dubious at best, and will
>     fail to garner results.  The existential chit chat with colleagues
>     may be more useful.
>
>
> with all the thousands of them, with many of which I've never had and 
> will have a chance to mee person?
>
> reputation in small, face-to-face groups is easy
Not in my experience over the last decade and a half - 'reputation', 
where for instance something like civic accountability is at issue, is a 
demanding form of work, or production.

What we have found (this work is also a form of cooperative inquiry) is 
that a key element in the assessing of reputation is the establishment 
of trust. Trust tends to based on disclosure - you want high levels of 
trust - then create a safe space where high levels of disclosure are 
encouraged/tolerated - and as I have mentioned in the earlier message 
where the distribution of power is also under close scrutiny by everyone 
involved.

Scaling remains a question for us in IPN but this network of 150 or so 
people has run on completely non-hierarchical lines for 17 years,  a 
treasurer, yes, but no chair, no offices. In that time there have been 
around 50 national gatherings of 20-30 self-selecting people who, 
without even facilitation, make decisions about resources, policy and 
promotion.

Collaboration in networks of peers seems necessarily to grow from the 
original kernels of creative commitment and trust, plus endless patience 
with negotiation, ie lots of 'existential chit chat'.

Denis
>
> when we also want to collaborate in large, global networks of peers, 
> then we need something more feasible than the existential chit chat, IMHO
>
> george
>
>     On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Denis Postle
>     <d.postle at btinternet.com <mailto:d.postle at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Robin,
>         I don't know how you would apply it to complementary
>         currencies but various versions of the arrangements you
>         outline have been in place for 17 years in The Independent
>         Practitioner Network [IPN] <http://i-p-n.org/> that I belong
>         to in the UK. Smaller groups than you mention, 5-8, meet every
>         six weeks or so. Their task is get to know each other well
>         enough to be able to 'stand by' their work with clients (a
>         reputation 'metric'?). For me the strong version of this
>         derives from 'self and peer assessment'
>         <http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm> based on a list of
>         mutually agreed criteria, which is what you seem to be suggesting.
>
>         I have written about this extensively, see my forthcoming book
>         Therapy Futures
>         <http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#> and
>         previously Regulating the psychological therapies.
>         <http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj>
>
>         In my experience your assumption...
>
>         ... that self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic
>         motivation), relatedness and competence is vital for social
>         justice where for individuals to be self-determining, everyone
>         else must be self-determining.
>
>         ...is very sound.
>
>         A critical other dimension is that the distribution of power
>         is constantly under scrutiny, ie that dominance and
>         subordination are eliminated. This doesn't mean that
>         hierarchies of experience and skill are eliminated but that
>         decision making is consensual. A tough task this since
>         domination often seems to me to be in the grain of the times.
>
>         I hope this helps
>         Denis
>         denisATpostle.net
>
>         On 23/09/2012 01:00, robin wrote:
>>
>>         Hi All
>>
>>         I am researching (via a PhD with the University of Tasmania)
>>         the idea of a reputation metric as a currency in a
>>         complementary currency project to test whether it would
>>         increase trust and other prosocial behaviours in local
>>         communities but most importantly to scale up trust between
>>         people that don’t know each other. What ideas do people have
>>         about how you would structure a reputation metric in
>>         practice? My vague ideas at the moment are that you could
>>         have resilience circles, small groups of 20 to 30 people who
>>         would meet once a month. They would act as support for each
>>         other, but also the group would allocate a score for
>>         individuals over the previous month based on set criteria for
>>         how each have exchanged with other people whether in the
>>         group or with others in different groups against the criteria
>>         which would attempt to vaguely measure autonomy, competence
>>         and relatedness. My research is based on the assumption that
>>         self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic motivation),
>>         relatedness and competence is vital for social justice where
>>         for individuals to be self-determining, everyone else must be
>>         self-determining.
>>
>>
>>         Any advice appreciated, eg are there are other groups that I
>>         could this to that might be relevant? Do I need to supply
>>         more information?
>>         Thanks & regards
>>         Robin
>>
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