# Changing the CredSperiment weights

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/changing-the-credsperiment-weights/540>\
**Category:** The CredSperiment\
**Created:** [December 31, 2019, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/changing-the-credsperiment-weights/540 "2019-12-31T01:12:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![s\_ben](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/s_ben/32/816_2.png) [@s\_ben](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/s_ben)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/changing-the-credsperiment-weights/540/17 "2020-01-02T21:35:03Z")

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Glad to have you aboard!

I think SourceCred can (and will) mean many things to many people. A working reputation system is very powerful. Personally what excites me most is the money aspect. Being able to make a living working on open source. But it’s still an experiment that can go in many directions.

For more on boosting, the Initiative for it is a good overview.

> [@Boosting](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/boosting/509):
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> Description Boosting allows Grain holders to signal high value things that merit the SourceCred community’s attention. Grain holders do this by staking their Grain to a node to boost it. When things are boosted those who contribute to or engage with those things will earn more Cred because the amount of Cred flowing to that node is boosted. Whoever boosted a node loses their Grain, but they gain a percentage of the Cred that will flow through the node. This incentivizes people to only boost thi…

One of the features that I think will make comparing activity across repos feasible.

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