Positive Cred Velocity

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@Beanow

A coordination problem - If people are feeling incentivized to “hoard Cred” and deliberately withhold from likes and attributing dependencies and such, that’s a more complex issue. Perhaps the incentives are indeed wrong and we should boost sharing dynamics. Perhaps it’s because of a misconception, where people believe it’s a zero-sum game and they will lose Cred by “giving it away” to others. What does it mean for collaboration within the community? Does it translate to people trying to do things on their own vs cooperating? I think this is where the most interesting challenges for SourceCred lie.

This was mainly what I was pointing to. I think there’s just a general bias towards zero-sum thinking and loss aversion. Onboarding new users will need to require educating them as to what SourceCred is, but also how to play the SourceCred game.

Also agree that this is one of the most interesting challenges and opportunities for SourceCred

@Beanow

it would be very interesting to see some data. Another one for my wishlist of UI improvements

Agreed! Data is empowering. Also, as discussed in reputation vs anonymity, for the game to work the system has to be transparent. Then players need to be able to engage to change the game to better reflect their values. Being able to easily visualize SourceCred would really help with this

@Beanow

My feeling is that some of the velocity shifted away from the forums into different areas.

Might be true! I mostly (only) hangout here so I wouldn’t know lol

@Beanow

With an 8x weight for topics and 2x for posts. Compared to 1x for a PR and 1/16x for Github comments. Resetting these to 1x each, activity seems to be reasonably constant.

TBH I’m not qualified to weigh in on this. Still don’t understand all the mechanics and how everything fits together. Seems like a PR, esp for many of the Initiatives in progress, would be as useful as a post so that makes sense. Can’t weigh in beyond that, however, as I don’t know what the exact numbers should be.

@Beanow

a lot of value of recent activity is in the blind spots of our current measurements.

This is most unfortunate and I’m glad we’re working to fix this

@Beanow

I’m wondering if we actually have a hoarding problem at all. Or just blind spots. So having a few metrics to know what’s going on, and more coverage of the known blind spots, I think would help here

I don’t know if we have a hoarding problem or not. Felt like there was a possibility, however, so created this thread. Then started thinking that we should incentivize sharing Cred to make the community feel more welcoming, engaging, and rewarding.

@decentralion

There are a few misconceptions here:

Thanks for clarifying that

@decentralion

I would really like us to build some tools (observable notebooks maybe?) that make it super easy to create little cred graphs and experiment with the cred flows. Then we can all get a good intuition for how cred really works, and make changes as necessary. See this initiative: Cred Analysis Notebooks.

I too would really like that!

@decentralion

Nice opportunity to keep testing our governance approach.

Do we currently have a governance system beyond TBD?