Maintaining A Reputation

Description
When a user has earned and is aware of her good reputation, she might feel obliged to make an extra effort to keep the reputation by only sharing and publishing well formated content.

Examples
A Flickr user, who is a photographer, publishes her own work online. She often get positive response to her pictures and she also have many contacts. Sometimes, when the user has taken a not very sharp picture, it can still be interesting. However, she choses not to publish any blurry pictures because of the risk of damaging her reputation as an accurate photographer.

Pros and Cons
When wanting good quality content, this is a pattern to strive for. However, it can lead to less publications due to Self Censoring.

Relations
Mecanics that is related to Maintaining A Reputation are the ones who tells the user a hint of her content's appreciation, i.e. Feedback (Crumlish & Malone). Examples of such feedback are Commenting, Thumbs up ,Reviews , Ratings , Favorites as well as showing number of contacts or followers (all from Crumlish & Malone).

Dynamics that are related to Maintaining A Reputation are Crafting Content, Maintaining A Facade and Self Censoring.

This pattern might lead to the occurance of the Tamagotchi Syndrome.

Contributors
Created by Malin Mattsson.