"A concept which can arguably be considered to be a mirror image of currency is a reputation system." https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Problems#12-reputation-systems
Re💩tation (repootation) is a react component ❤️👍👎💩 for fast and efficient rating, that can be embedded anywhere on the Internet and allows to capture reactions and ratings to content in a decentralized and verifiable 🔑 way.
Re💩tation uses triples of the form <content hash><relationship><signature> that are stored on orbitdb 🛰️ through 3Box.
With these statements we can construct an entity relationship graph 🌳 and verify all edges between nodes.
Facebook "like buttons" 👍 can be found everywhere on the Internet. Without StackOverflow upvotes ⬆️ it could be possible that a lot of software (maybe even Ethereum) would not (yet) exist. GitHub stars ⭐ are one of the most important factors to assess the quality and popularity of a software.
While these reputation concepts are extremely powerful and make it very easy to capture reactions and a rating of content they also have major restrictions:
- they only represent one domain specific attribute - no simple format to express them
- they are centrally managed and stored on company servers (reputation can go "out of business", be target of DoS attacks)
- they are hard to process by other software such as package managers (only download audited modules, display modules with >100 likes)
Ideally
- we would own our opinion and it would be censorship resistant
- we could express and store relationships of identities to content in a decentralized way
- we would have a format that can be used as metadata and be easily processed by a program.
- this information would be agnostic of underlying hosting infrastructure and portable / transferrable.
Some of the problems Repootation were facing belong arguably to the hardest cs problems. And of Repootation does not solve all of them. 💩
Goals:
- Multiple votes by one account are not allowed ✅
- One identity = one account (anti sybil attacks) ❌ - not (yet)
-options:
- central server that validates identity 🕵️
- chain of trust ⛓️
- proof of work 🔨
- stake 💰
- Non repudiation: bad actors cannot revert or obscure their actions ✅
- Decentralized storage ✅
- Portable and expressive data format ✅
- Verifiable relationship statements ✅
Data format:
<content hash><relationship><signature>
Scoring: ❤️: +2 👍: +1 👎: -1 💩: -2
Decentralized storage with 3Box and orbitdb 🛰️
Experiments ❤️ & 💩: Poo emoji 💩 is an important element to simulate trolls or bad actors. Let's consider a game where good actors will try to increase utility of the system but bad actors will constantly vote with poo. How can we mitigate bad behavior or incentivize good one?
- Smart contract indicators and badges in remix
- censorship resistant support buttons
- 0 tracing