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''This article is about repute in [[web service]] settings. The term reputation is usually assumed to be an equivalent, but has rather broader meaning.''
''This article is about repute in [[web service]] settings. The term reputation is usually assumed to be an equivalent, but has rather broader meaning.  '''Stigma''' usually means negative repute, '''honour''' means positive repute.''


'''Repute''' is [[value]] associated with some [[identity]].  It is really an [[ethics]] concept that becomes visible as a measure of [[social capital]]. In general there is no such thing as bad repute, if the identity can be discarded or changed, as it can in almost all [[troll]] situations.  If one has a repute one wishes to discard, one simply discards the identity and starts over.  In [[wiki management]] this is called the [[right to vanish]], and is a key issue in both [[surveillance and governance]] of especially [[large public wiki]]s where there are very often many [[users in conflict]]. Lack of this "right" can lead to [[social exclusion]] in some circumstances.  
'''Repute''' is [[value]] associated with some [[identity]].  It is really an [[ethics]] concept that becomes visible as a measure of [[social capital]]. In general there is no such thing as bad repute, if the identity can be discarded or changed, as it can in almost all [[troll]] situations.  If one has a repute one wishes to discard, one simply discards the identity and starts over.  In [[wiki management]] this is called the [[right to vanish]], and is a key issue in both [[surveillance and governance]] of especially [[large public wiki]]s where there are very often many [[users in conflict]]. Lack of this "right" can lead to [[social exclusion]] in some circumstances.  
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