Michael Gorey

I came across Rapleaf tonight. It’s an online reputation lookup service. Rapleaf’s goal is “to make it more profitable to be ethical”.

The rationale: “Building a positive reputation is necessary in making the world a better place. Prove your trustworthiness wherever you go and feel confident in the identities of the people you deal with through Rapleaf.”

I registered for an account and entered my two main email addresses which I use for most web sites and online transactions.

It is possible to leave manual ratings for people’s email addresses. The Rapleaf score and percentage is found, I think, by trawling the web and social networking sites.

I thought it was linked with eBay somehow until I read: “Please note that Ebay has banned Rapleaf from its site and so there is not a way for Rapleaf members to transfer their Ebay ratings to Rapleaf.”

I can see some merit in this if you’re doing a lot of buying or selling online. People are invited to contribute towards the reputation of others by assigning ratings and leaving comments.

You can do that for me here.

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