METHOD FOR MANAGING THE REPUTATION OF MEMBERS OF AN ONLINE COMMUNITY

摘要

A method for managing reputation scores of members of an online community, wherein each member is associated with a set of inviting members having invited that member to join the online community and with a set of invited members having being invited by that member to join the online community. The method includes, for each member: determining a respective reputation score at the time when he/she joins the online community; and updating the respective reputation score based on a change in the reputation score of at least one of: at least one inviting member among the respective set of inviting members, or at least one invited member among the respective set of invited members.