@balasan I have been thinking about these feedback loops in @decentralion’s design and I made a rough cut at drawing them. Still working on more detailed feedback, but I’d like to get a round of feedback on whether this diagram is a useful reflection of the design.
The Pink diamonds and associated boxes represent the activities of the participants in the community. Any actor could be interacting through any or all of these touch points. @decentralion is essentially doing all of these roles, and the rest of us are doing at least “contributing” just by participating in this discussion. Yellow is the conserved flow of fiat, Blue is the conserved flow of Mana, and Green is the conserved flow of cred. By saying conserved I do not mean that these things cannot be created, merely that there are well defined rules about how they enter or leave “the system” and this map represents those structurally without getting into the details of the algorithms themselves.
At first glance it feels pretty good. Outstanding questions are really around what types of conversion rates for the various forms of value would help keep the system’s incentives aligned. I suspect this will require a lot of internal iterations; what can (or should) we learn in each of the ‘trust’ phases of SourceCred’s community (see Dogfooding SourceCred via OpenCollective for phases).
I am also very curious about how and to what extent the boosting based system will actually “curate” contributions. In the early CredSperiment this won’t be particularly apparent because we don’t yet have a enough unique contributors to see how the boosts entice them. Once more contributors come in, it will be interesting to see if they will be able to identify and gravitate towards the parts of the contribution graph with the most boosts.