It is all over the web. Now it comes to the second life. Rate other avatars, rate objects, rate everything… Don't stop clicking little red or green buttons like an experimental rat. Initially, there was rating system provided by Linden Lab. It is visible in profile page and accesible on right-click. You can give positive point for person's behaviour or appereance. On objects you can rate its builder. It costs 25L$ or so for each vote. Some avies are doing good with it. I had the pleasure to met people with hundreds of points. Sure, I met people with zero points which are quite pleasant, good looking and/or skilled builders. For some groups that part of the game makes sense, some other even don't know it exists.
But now, we also had third party rating system called Rate Point. Not much of an invention, you attach the HUD and all the other avatars that are in the same system will display set of stars over their heads. You can rate them and even write a short comment on them. How bloody interesting! Shouldn't be this great invention kept exclusively on teen-grid?
Sure that Rate Point was not enough. We can rate people, but how we are going to put our thumbs up or down for objects around us? We will use Slate It. If you don't guess what does it do you are probably good to use it. Fully compatibile with web2.0 idea, it provides tags and SLURL's.
Ok, this is not exlusive for second life. All the internet has become one great popularity contest. We are digging blogs, rating other people's holiday photos, clicking boxes and even don't know what do we do with all those huge popularity social data-bases. And that virus just flourished on trashy grounds of second life. Our sexy bodys and luxury life-styles are much of temptation for gadgets that work on vanity.
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