Cred: not a token

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A Gentle Introduction to Cred

SourceCred, as the name might suggest, is all about attributing cred. Cred is a metric that describes every contribution and contributor in a project, giving a sense of how important they were. For example, forum posts (like this one) can earn cred. If this post earns 5 cred, and another post earns 10 cred, then that other post is considered twice as important as this one. (Note: SourceCred doesn’t load posts from this forum yet.) The contributions are arranged in a graph, where contributions …