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    Cory Doctorow To Fans: "Stop Pinging Your Whuffie"

    By Charlie Jane Anders, 10:20 AM on Wed Nov 26 2008, 1,422 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    "I am actually a deep Whuffie sceptic. The problem is the same as with cash economics, the lack of social mobility and a winner-takes-all economy. It is also powerfully normative and punishing of minority viewpoints... Pretty much all transformational ideas are challenging to the status quo. A society that doesn't protect unpopular ideas is one that is probably doomed." — Cory Doctorow on "Whuffie," the reputation capital system he invented, in the Guardian.

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