How much transparency for an online reputation system?
ErrantX: > so that everyone knows it's on the up and up and we're not secretly favoring people?Trust has to start somewhere. The people that think the above will in the most part either a) not be using your site or b) not convinced by your "open algorithms" anyway.On the other hand opening them up fully makes it easier to game the system: unless it is a bulletproof system I would avoid full disclosure.