If we accomplish nothing else, this would be enough. The world needs more “cred mintiness” lol
Overall, I think this is a great direction for further exploration. Would be great if we had Cred Analysis Notebooks to explore this further.
On the other hand, I fear that we might be over-engineering the system. Simple systems tend to work better in practice. No way to find out until we try it, but it’s important we don’t get too used to using our hyper customized version of SourceCred and become disconnected from the experience that new users/communities might have.
That being said, the current SourceCred system is not at all simple. The amount of Cred minted per week is chosen by TBD (right?) and the weights to do so are also determined by TBD. If out of the box there was a recommended weekly Cred minting from the main artifact that would be cool. Also, if there was a set of recommended add-on meta-Artifacts that you could enable (such as Art, Documentation, Support, Outreach, Code, Strategy, or whatever else) then that would be cool too. This would make it a lot easier for communities (including our own) to value, recognize, and reward all the diverse contributions that make projects successful.
Another thought: Boosting in itself provides incentives for the community to find and support valuable things. In a developed community that market based mechanism should be enough to incentivize Cred flow to high value Artifacts. This works once the community is live, but it has a bootstrapping problem: how do you boost if you don’t have Cred, and how do you earn Cred if no one is boosting? This points to a need to have a standard Cred minting process, esp in the boostrapping phase of a project/community.
I dunno… I’m just brainstorming on ideas here, but overall I think this is a good direction to explore 