Updates to SourceCred
Over the past few weeks, @befitsandpiper & the Pollen swarm have been making extensive adjustments to sourcecred to make it more fair for everyone, and to reduce the effectiveness of people trying to game the system. The following is a change log that can be used to track the differences as SourceCred continues to change. As any changes or updates happen, the post will be edited to include new info as a new version. We would love your feedback on how sourcecred has been for you so far, and potential changes you would be interested in seeing. Thanks for your input as we work hard to make this as effective as possible for everyone.
Proposed Changes to SourceCred (Version 1.6):
For the week of November 23rd and onwards
- Cred budgeting
- As proposed by mZ, cred budgeting partitions the total new minted cred into plugin level buckets.
- Github plugin up to 200 cred
- Discord plugin up to 150 cred
- Discourse plugin up to 150 cred
- As proposed by mZ, cred budgeting partitions the total new minted cred into plugin level buckets.
Changes to Last Distribution (Version 1.5):
For the week of November 9th and onwards
- Immediate policy replaced with recent policy with 30% decay factor
- Switched to 25HNY recent & 8HNY balanced ratio
Changes to Last Distribution (Version 1.4):
Changes for the week of November 4th and onwards
- Reduce payout from 50HNY to 33HNY
- 8x for PRs
- Updated values of cred minting
- Original:
- 0 cred = 0x
- 40+ cred = 0.5x
- 100+ cred = 1x
- New
- 30+ cred = 0.25x
- 60+ cred = 0.5x
- 90+ cred = 0.75x
- 120+ cred = 1x
- Original:
Changes to Last Distribution (Version 1.3):
Changes for this weeks distribution on Wednesday November 4th
- Meme channel going from 0.25x to 0x cred
- Asymptotic weights are being removed as they were difficult to test and didn’t make much difference in the numbers
- Discord: cred-based roles
- Determines a users ability to mint cred. The idea is a user with more cred is more reputable and thus more trusted to mint cred.
- 0 cred = 0x
- 40+ cred = 0.5x
- 100+ cred = 1x
- The distribution of honey will change from 25/25 weekly/overall to 15/35 weekly/overall to better contribute to community members who continually provide content
- Moderation over pollen is now being added. Users who believe that someone is ‘gaming’ the cred system, they can provide a report at Pollen user report thread 📣 following @Rayne’s guidelines and members involved can determine if this user was ‘gaming’ and should have their cred temporarily deactivated.
Changes to Last Distribution (Version 1.2):
Changes as of October 26th
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Distributions will be switched from Friday’s to Monday’s to fix the 1 week delay on SourceCred as SourceCred switches over Sunday night.
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Asymptotic discord reaction weights
- each additional react on a message counts for half the previous react (1 to 1/2 to 1/4 to 1/8 to 1/16)
- This is to prevent spamming infinite emojis on a message
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Role-based cred minting (This means giving more credit to others, not generating more yourself)
- Fauna/seeds mint cred 1x, verified users 0.7x, unverified users 0x
- This means a fauna/seed emoji will count for twice as much as a verified user
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Channel weighted cred
- Fauna - 0x (will generate no cred)
- Information (welcome/announcements/info/feed) - 0x
- Memes - 0.25x
- Support (help/bugreport/feedback) - 1.5x
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Pull requests on Github are increased from 2x to 4x
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No self-reacts
Changes to Last Distribution (Version 1.1):
- Discord: ‘Super emojis’ now give the proper amount of cred (2x not 1x)
- Discord: Unverified users no longer mint cred (their emojis do not give any cred)
- Discord: Fauna/seeds mint cred 2x over a verified user (a fauna/seed emoji will count for twice as much as a regular verified user)
- Discourse (Forums): likes on posts has been reduced from 8x (relative to discord standard emojis) to 4x (50% decrease)
Upcoming Changes or Outstanding Issues:
- Automated onboarding for pollen
- Discourse: Adjust member trust levels (3 & 4 currently have 1.25x & 1.5x cred minting - they give additional cred to others with their likes)
- Way to view top 10 earners each week
- Reduction in like maximum on discourse from 50
- Decaying cred
Current Configuration:
Discourse (Forum)
- Post Likes: 2x * trust modifier
- Post reply: 1x * trust modifier
- Connections to a post: ~1x
Discord:
- Reaction (emoji): 1x * trust modifier
- Reaction (super emoji): 2x * trust modifier
- Mentions: ~1x
Github:
- Pull request: 4x
- Commit: 1x
Additional stats for sourcecred can be found at: https://pollenstats.herokuapp.com/, thanks to @Santigs