I think a problem with this is that it removes the common-knowledge-building effect of public overall karma, since it becomes much less clear what things in general the community is paying attention to.
You can use EigenKarma in several ways. If it is important to make clear what a specific community pays attention to, when thing to do is this:
Have the feed of a forum be what the founder (or moderators) of the forum sees from the point of view of their trust graph.
This way the moderators get control over who is considered core to the community, and what are the sort of bounderies of the community.
In this set up the public karma is how valuable a member is to the community as judged by the core members of the community and the people they trust weighted by degree of trust
This gives a more fluid way of assigning priviliges and roles within the forum, and reduces the risk that a sudden influx will rapidly alter the culture of the forum. We run a sister version of the system that works like this in at least one Discord.
I think a problem with this is that it removes the common-knowledge-building effect of public overall karma, since it becomes much less clear what things in general the community is paying attention to.
You can use EigenKarma in several ways. If it is important to make clear what a specific community pays attention to, when thing to do is this:
Have the feed of a forum be what the founder (or moderators) of the forum sees from the point of view of their trust graph.
This way the moderators get control over who is considered core to the community, and what are the sort of bounderies of the community.
In this set up the public karma is how valuable a member is to the community as judged by the core members of the community and the people they trust weighted by degree of trust
This gives a more fluid way of assigning priviliges and roles within the forum, and reduces the risk that a sudden influx will rapidly alter the culture of the forum. We run a sister version of the system that works like this in at least one Discord.
This should be mitigated by pools of mutual trust that naturally form whenever there’s a loop in the trust graph.