reputation abyss

The point where someone's reputation is tarnished for good. Similar to the event horizon of a black hole (once it's crossed, nothing can escape the hole's gravitational pull, not even light itself), it is no longer possible for someone past the abyss to restore their reputation. If they try to, they will be shunned, ignored, or otherwise prevented from succeeding. If they do manage to restore their reputation, that means they never actually crossed it in the first place.

I think O.J. Simpson crossed the reputation abyss when he was suspected of murdering his wife and her friend. Despite his acquittal, his reputation was irreparably damaged.

by Purplax November 27, 2024

Reputation

Something you get by your own character or personality and choices.

I want to better my reputation not make a false personality and be little people by spreading rumors that just makes me a negativity person.

by ONLY TRUTH TELLER August 9, 2025

Reputation

You want to know the difference between "reputation" and "status?"

Hym "Reputation is people's willingness to lie for you. Status is commensurate with your deeds. See, you can have a high level of status but that might not motivate people to lie for you and may even incentivize lying ABOUT you. Without the reputation (how you are regarded by a certain team) of being on a certain team, they don't know whether or not you're willing to lie FOR THEM. So, the religion. The politics. It's all just to decide who's going to lie for who and when. And that's what we are seeing here. They can figure out who is going to lie for them or not so they are trying to drag this out as long as possible. I'm just going to kill a kid ifbthey don't take about the surveillance I'm under and credit and pay me for AI. That IS going to happen. And if I die before then, someone else can always do it in my name after you screw THEM. Which you will. Because your refuse to stop trying to screw people. So, I don't need to be alive to harm you for doing this. The only way other people can guarantee that they themselves aren't on the other end of it is to prevent it from happening to me."

by Hym Iam April 23, 2025

Reputation

Either everyone has a reputation or no one does.

A reputation is not something just one kind of person has. It either applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

by The Original Agahnim December 3, 2021

Reputation

The free spirit/non-reputation is still a reputation. The person still has to keep up their counter-reputation, otherwise people will find out what they really do when nobody is looking.

Someone claiming to be a free spirit isn't really someone that doesn't care what anybody thinks of him/her, it is somebody desperate to convince people that he/she doesn't care what anybody thinks, and the same applies to any image someone goes for (including the telling everyone else to be themself image even if they already are themselves). As long as the person has to convince other people they don't care what anyone thinks of them, they have a reputation of some sort to protect, no matter what they tell you to the contrary.

by The Original Agahnim December 3, 2021