Some questions as a new comer

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This is a great response @Beanow! I’ll just add a couple things:

Jessie:

4)How does SC apply the PageRank algorithm to the social contributing graph ,can you give an visualized example to brief the process if possible?

A good primer on how PageRank algorithm works in SourceCred is @mzargham’s article Exploring Subjectivity in Algorithms. This walks your through simple examples and has visuals.

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The two main ‘knobs’ used to tune the PageRank algorithm are:

  • Seed vector: this is where the cred enters the graph. For example, If the seed vector is one very important contribution, cred will flow outward from that contribution.
  • Alpha: this parameter controls how far cred from a given contribution flows to other contributions. @decentralion I believe has tuned this parameter at least once in SourceCred’s instance.

I will say that, in my experience, the default settings do a pretty good job on the GitHub repos I have run SourceCred on. Depending on the project, it may be useful right away without customization.

Jessie:

6)How to plug sourcecred into some DAOs? Do you have the plan OR already have the case (into Aragon DAOs)?

While SourceCred has decided to wait on becoming a DAO itslef, others are actively experimenting with using SourceCred in DAOs. At a recent hackathon, a team created an integration between Aragon and SourceCred, credao, where were tokens on the Ethereum blockchain are distributed based on cred scores. This work is based in part on EthTrader’s DAONuts project, which tokenized reddit “points”. We also have a contributor, @burrrata, that is active in the Aragon community and has been exploring this use case.

SourceCred is also the planned reputation system for The DAO, a second try at the original Ethereum DAO. In the below Unchained podcast, @rzurrer talks about SourceCred and how it could be used in that DAO.

If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, I explore SourceCred and DAOs in more depth in the below article.

Jessie:

7)I saw from one post (if I m not wrong)saying that one of the major difference betwwen colony and sourcecred is sourcecred can better help value the complex work contribution(i guess like the UI/UX work is complex enough lol) ,can you go more further into that?

I haven’t looked into Colony much either, but in the below comment (from Aug 22nd), a research engineer at Colony weighed in on the difference between SourceCred and Colony’s approaches.

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