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RE: Progress Report for Calibrae: Universal binary build in pprocess and initial wiki page up with most basic changes described and specified
Please if anything, do not allow accounts to smash other accounts out of spite. I understand the need for checks and balances like up voting and down voting, but they should have equally proportional power. If a post or comment gets 4 up votes and 1 down vote, the down vote should only have a 20% effect since it is 1 out of 5. Something like that.
I have already devised a scheme for this. It's central to the changes, in fact:
https://github.com/calibrae-project/calibrd/wiki#reputation-coefficient
The exact details of the implementation may change a little, and I haven't yet fully studied the way reputation works as it is but the principles are as follows:
Calibrae will leverage the ability of humans to recognise sybils, scammers, trolls and scammers, and allow the community to judge them by suppressing their ability to operate their account, both through downvotes, as well as being able to effectively downvote the account using mute.
I have thought quite a ways beyond that. You, reasonably, do not think that stake based power is reasonable. Well, neither do I, alone. This is why we are putting reputation on an equal footing with stake. The individual vote is not going to help balance things in a situation with potential sockpuppet voting and bot voting. The point of stake regulating vote power is to put a risk for the bad actor. This is nullified by the fact that there is a small group of bad actors on this platform who have stake that cost them nearly nothing, and zero risk because they can just suppress their enemies with downvotes.
If you want to learn more about calibrae, come join the forum: http://calibrae.freeforums.net/ and you can also voice your opinions about what you learn. It is a work in progress and we haven't moved far beyond specifying the parameters of the system due to the aggressive suppression of my attempts to inform people about it. You will find that the plans are very reasonable and balanced, and you can ask questions to further clarify. The more voices speak, the more questions we hear, the more we can adjust our system to what it should be.
We do not want to repeat ANY mistakes here, no matter how well intentioned they were.