Patent ID: 8221238

Claim:
A method for determining a reputation of a gamer of a multi-player computer-based game, said method comprising: determining a number of players who have provided negative feedback about said gamer; determining on at least one computer a quotient by dividing said number of players who have provided negative feedback about said gamer by a number of players said gamer has encountered via game play; determining a first value indicative of a total number of strangers said gamer has encountered via game play; determining a second value indicative of a total number of players who have respectively registered an explicit decision to play with said gamer, the explicit decision to play with said gamer based on at least partial game play experience between the respective players and said gamer; determining a third value indicative of a total number of players who have respectively registered an explicit decision not to play with said gamer, the explicit decision not to play with said gamer based on at least partial game play experience between the respective players and said gamer; and forming an aggregate of said first value, said second value, and said third value, the quotient, the first value, and the aggregate being indicative of a reputation of said gamer.