Imagining new Discord Props Experiences

[blueridger]

@META_DREAMER in the other thread:

@META_DREAMER

IMO our current method of minting more cred as more emoji reactions come in isn’t ideal and is something we should work on refining if we want to have high signal / low noise cred flows. Right now I always have to play this internal mind game to see if I should react to something or not based on how many reactions it already has since I don’t want it to get over-credited even though I like the contribution. I’ve seen even in MetaGame that contributions that invoke more emotions often get a lot more reactions than ones that are more mundane but still super valuable (e.g. someone making a really funny meme or charismatic post that hypes people up vs someone who did the grunt work of coordinating dozens of people or cleaning up backlog of old issues / forum posts, etc). There’s also the bias of people adding reactions with the same emojis as the previous person who reacted.

@blueridger and I were discussing an alternative approach where instead of counting the amount of reactions, we have a way for people to indicate how much they think that contribution is worth and the resulting weight would be the “mean” instead of the “sum”. For example, we could have a bot that automatically adds 4 reactions to every post in props/didathing that represents “common (1)”, “rare (3)” “epic (5)” and “legendary (8)” contributions and people just react with the one they think applies and the resulting weight would just be the average of the individual reaction weights. I think something like this would greatly increase the signal/noise ratio for props/didathing channels and is likely closer to what I envision weighting nodes in the creditor to look like.