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Ashunti Smith
November 6th, 2009
Ms. Hudson
Basic English II
Reputation
Reputation…It’s a word I have heard all of my life. Every since I was old enough to know what one was, I was taught that upholding a good reputation is important. Obtaining a good reputation is important for male and female, child or adult, simply because what you do in the past always follows you to the present. In the worst situations it will affect your future. “Your reputation will follow you your whole life”, my mother repeated to me so many times as a young girl. To this day I still believe her words are true; in fact I know they are. I have known many people who had such bad reputations growing up that even as an adult, with changed ways, it has managed to come back to haunt them.
We use reputation regularly in our daily lives --- reputations of individuals, as when we choose a physician; groups, as when we decide that individuals above a certain age can be trusted to purchase alcohol; and collective entities, as when we decide whether Ford is a company that will sell us good cars.
In a research guide written by Roger Dingledine, Michael J Freedman, David Molnar, David Parkes, Paul Syverson reputation is based on linkability. When we can link actions to an identity and link actions by that identity to other actions by that same identity, then we can begin to make predictions about the identity's future actions. We distinguish between the problem of verification (establishing identity and tying it to a real-world entity) and the problem of reputation (judging the behavior of a given identity).

According to the online source LAW.COM a reputation is “
A person's good name, honor or what the community thinks of him/her. The quality and value of one's reputation is a key issue in suits for defamation (libel and slander) since the damage to one's reputation by published untruths may determine the amount of...