[P2P-F] Advice re reputation metrics

Sun Sep 23 23:48:17 CEST 2012

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On 23 September 2012 20:34, Denis Postle <d.postle at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
> On 23/09/2012 14:15, George Pór wrote:
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>
>> 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>wrote:
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>>>  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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