Your top 3 content for the InfoBot

[benoxmo]

The discord bot is in development (update). It will provide for the first iteration:

• a link to the official documents

• a quick recap of your Cred score

• a few insightful links (audio, video, discourse posts or article) that are related to SourceCred and its contributors to make the exploration deeper! That’s where we need your input. These links will feed the bot.

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[benoxmo]

My top 3 :

SourceCred governance

Not to bikeshed (please don’t reply to this if you think it is or you’ll give me cred), but what is SoureCred’s position on governance? I know that seems like a tomorrow problem. But if this is going to direct money (the end game), it’s going to be political. The most succinct definition of politics I ever heard was “how to decide how to spend the money”. In any SourceCred instance, the parameters choices will always be value judgements, whether subjective or objective (“All Models Are Wrong But…

SourceCred as Store-of-Community Value (SoCV)

SourceCred is, in a literal sense, Proof-of-Work (POW). What would happen if we just applied the Bitcoin blockchain algorithm (proven game theory) to SourceCred, swapping out mining for contributions? A thought exercise. Bitcoin miners get paid according to the computing power they supply to secure the network, as measured by the number blocks found (a proxy for computing power). SourceCred contributors get paid according to the contributions they make, as measured by cred scores (a proxy for h…

A Living History of SourceCred

What follows is a history of SourceCred (so far). This post is a wiki, and is intended to act as a living document. Everyone is invited to add more information to the history. Discourse is not paper, so we don’t have to worry about running out of space. Feel free to add yourself and others to the history! Prelude (2015-2018) For many years, @decentralion had been thinking about using PageRank reputation networks to improve legibility and trust in the context of society. Also for many years, @…

[panchomiguel]

Would it make sense to link people immediately to “opt-in” to receiving Cred and Grain?

+1 on adding a Living History of SourceCred

[s_ben]

While the two posts of mine here are some of my favorite, they might not be the best fit for the bot. SourceCred as Store-of-Community Value (SoCV) is more of a thought experiment than something that has been implemented. SourceCred governance is a great thread, but it’s more of a general conversation about governance and some ideas for SourceCred tossed around. While insightful, it may get out of date quickly. Governance is moving fast, and this may not represent current thought for long.

+1 for A Living History of SourceCred.

[s_ben]

Looking through Discourse, it’s difficult to find things that are evergreen… It’s mostly interesting discussion that is or will be out of date eventually. One exception I think is the About Champions and Heroes post. This has continued to be a guiding document, we have implemented champions into the structure of the Initiatives plugin (each Initiative has a champion), and I believe we link to it from the official docs somewhere.

Other than that, maybe Separation of Powers + Checks and Balances? I know @decentralion has posted this before on Twitter, presumably in part because it captures some of the ethos and thinking around the project. But again, could get out of date.

Don’t know if they’ve already been posted, but I do think we have some long-form articles that could be good. Gotta shill my own (which I do genuinely think is good:),

The DAO Missing Link: Reputation Protocols

Also, this is bound to be a must read for anyone that wants a deep dive into the algorithm (maybe not best for bot though if just intro content?).

SourceCred: An Introduction to Calculating Cred and Grain | Protocol Labs...

And these data sciency’ articles diving deeper into the theory:

Exploring Subjectivity in Algorithms

Network Formation Games

I also still very much like the first podcast with @decentralion.

SourceCred Podcast

Have posted that numerous times to introduce people to SourceCred. I worry a bit that it’s getting a little out of date, but I think it’s generally evergreen. Curious to hear if @decentralion disagrees.