I was wondering when someone was going to come out with this, and if other have before, sorry I missed it. Read/Write Web has just installed a comment reputation/rating system called SezWho.

What SezWho does is provides a means for each visitor to rate some ones comments. Over time this will build into a reputation that enables you to then filter out the comments others have not found useful when you come to a blog.

This is a real missed opportunity for E-Bay to break out of the auction mode. They are the masters of reputation, but have yet to release a way for people to use these reputations outside of E-Bay. If E-Bay wanted to they could easily become a powerhouse in this space.

The big question is do we really need it or does it just stifle the conversation?

I think that in today’s world you need all the ways to filter data you can get and no matter how much you want to believe it some peoples comments hold more weight in a conversation than others.

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