meritocracy - LeFreq/Singularity GitHub Wiki

Meritocracy: How to create the perfect, decentralized knowledge and news base by voting on messages. For the purpose of this page, these will be called "nodes". The following is a synopsis of other notes I've made on the subject but are scattered around the web. See the gist on the "perfect internet", for example.

  • Each node created must be tagged (can inherit from existing hierarchy, like a group tag, if one is not given) and is credited with authorship, date of creation, and last edit (what else?).
  • Any user who sees the node can vote it up or down. They can also vote an item "way down" (which can kick it out of it`s grouping/tag if the user has a high enough credit) or "way up" (put it to the top) by expending credits from other votes they've given elsewhere.
  • The author of the node gets their tally up or down, relative to each tag that the post contains and starts the formation of merit for the user's tag.
  • The voter also gets a count tallied for doing the work of expressing their opinion and this provides a basis of credit. The owner of this credit can sacrifice as much as they want in voting a node way up or down (up to the amount of their reputation on the tag), creating an ecosystem of opinion and merit. They only get one credit to their ledger for voting something way up or way down, no matter how many credits they expend from their ledger.
  • The user`s merit determines their radius (prominence) in coordinate space:User view.
  • Reputation for a user then is a sum of tagged-votes -- mental and social values.
  • Comments do not normally add to reputation, but if another user adds a tag to the comment, then it counts like a normal post. Except for tagged comments, votes on comments are for sorting comments to posts.
  • To prevent auto-voting or gaming the system, registration is required, otherwise you only get one vote from the same IP address per day. (spoofing problem???)
Someone must build the tag ontology to categorize posts. Is there a second ontology for comments ("Expert opinion", or something? I think not, the comments count as part of the post.).

To consider: credits could be used to buy privileges, like changing tags on other's posts.

Running objects allows payment to be made to the author. The author can decide how to allocate the revenue if other programmers assisted (10% to CowboyNeat, 20% LeetGeek, leaving the rest to the creator of the object).


Odds and ends: A user NAME counts as a TAG. (If a single tweet, then 1d line, otherwise 2d sheets or rectangular planes), objects (a 3d box of one unit on a single dimension), or users (spheres).
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