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A few days ago, I had a nudge to replay last week's INLEO Ask Me Anything (AMA) session where the development and growth of the InLeo project and $LEO token were discussed. One of the striking parts of the discussion was about the social reputation of the Hive blockchain.

The Hive blockchain is designed for social interaction and content creation and employs an engagement-based reputation system to enhance user experience and content quality. This system is integral to maintaining the integrity and vibrancy of the Hive ecosystem, which includes blogging, social networking, and other forms of content sharing.

Explaining in layman's language, reputation can be viewed as the collective opinions or perceptions that people hold about an individual, organization, product, or entity. It is formed over time based on one's actions, behaviors, achievements, and the feedback or evaluations of others. In a social media setting, we can see reputation as how others perceive our growth influence and impact on the platform.

Reputation can significantly impact various aspects of life and business, influencing social interactions, opportunities, and trustworthiness. Reputation can be managed and improved by consistent positive behavior, transparency, and effective communication. Conversely, it can be damaged by negative actions, scandals, or poor public relations.

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The present reputation model of Hive blockchain is basically on Voting and Curation. Users on Hive can upvote or downvote posts and comments. These votes directly impact the reputation of the content creator. Positive votes from users with high influence significantly boost the creator's reputation, while downvotes cannot decrease it. The reputation count starts at 25 and keeps growing to whatever it would amount to.

Thus, an account that receives more upvotes on content will grow in reputation than a counterpart account of its age with no frequent and higher votes. It has been argued that this reputation system does not truly depict the general consideration of "reputation score" which should take into account the user's social responsibility and contribution to the growth of the platform.

Thinking Engagement-based Reputation

@khaleelkazi raised concerns about the present reputation system on Hive. In his argument, he said that there are accounts on Hive that are not active in the past four years, but have a reputation score of over 80 because they were either favoured to receive huge upvote in their early days of active engagement or did use bid bots or self-votes to boost their reputation. Even with being dormant for four years, they score a higher reputation score than a user who has been actively engaging the blockchain for the past five years.

The engagement-based reputation system on the Hive blockchain would play a crucial role in creating a vibrant and trustworthy social ecosystem. By rewarding quality content and positive interactions and engagement, Hive not only incentivizes meaningful participation but also ensures a self-sustaining and moderated community.

The engagement-based reputation system would address challenges like vote manipulation and whale dominance and this will be key to maintaining a balanced and fair platform for all users. It would give room for more minnows to grow.

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Engagement-based Reputation: Khal's Perspective

During the InLeo AMA, Khal highlighted the factors that he would consider in his design of an engagement-based reputation system that would be made open source in case other frontends of Hive decide to incorporate the same. These factors are:

• comments
• Replies to comments
• Threads
• Replies to Threads
• Posts
• Post and Thread votes
• Consistent activity

Khal says he views a reputation system that would run from 0 to 100 and is subject to negative moderation should the user become dormant or not increase in the stats above.

Years ago, a similitude of this engagement-based reputation score had been designed by @abh12345 and used in the Hive engagement and Leofinance Engagement Leagues ranking scores then. The LeoFinance engagement league score took into consideration, the following indices of users as it relate with LeoFinance community:

• Posts made using leofinance.io (P)
• Comments made using leofinance.io (C)
• Number of people spoken to where the comment was made using leofinance.io (PS)
• Comments made outside of own posts using leofinance.io (CO)
• Unique Author posts commented on where the comment was made using leofinance.io (UA)
• Comments - replies to replies - depth > 2 (CR)
• Comments - length in characters (CL)
• Up-votes to others (V)
• Up-votes to different authors (UV)
• Self-votes (SV)

It is obvious that the proposed Engagement-based Reputation would take some or all of the above indices into consideration, as they represent a holistic value given to the platform as demanded of by the definition of a corporate reputation.

How the Engagement-based Reputation System should work

The proposed Hive's engagement-based reputation system would be primarily influenced by user interactions and engagement of the platform. Here’s a breakdown of the key components:

1. Content Quality and Engagement

Focusing the reputation of a user of a social media like InLeo, or Hive in perspective, on the quality of their posts (long-form and short-form) would stir meaningful conversations and motivate the creation of quality content that could bring more views to those contents. We know the views are responsible for the indexing of the platform's links in search engines.

High-quality posts will garner substantial engagement (likes, comments, shares). The system will encourage users to produce valuable and engaging content to improve their standing within the community.

2. Time and Consistency

An engagement-based reputation would inspire users' consistency in contributing valuable content, and over time, this helps in steadily increase visitors to the platform. This system would reward regular and active participation, discouraging spam and low-effort posts.

3. Voting and Curation

As with the present reputation system, votes to other users would constitute the user's reputation. on the other hand, self-votes should reduce the user's reputation score to encourage a non-selfish system.

4. Influence of Stake

On Hive, influence is tied to the amount of Hive Power (HP) a user holds. Hive Power is a form of staked cryptocurrency that grants voting influence. On the second layer, users also gain influence in communities by the amount of tokens they stake for curation. Considering asset stake in a user's reputation would create more demand for the assets and encourage long-term participation which would be a big boost to the asset's market.

Tokenizing of Hive reputation

With an engagement-based reputation score, I think there is more that can be derived. There is a possibility for tokenizing the reputation score each time a certain milestone is reached. Let's say a user starts at zero and once the user reaches a 25 rep score, he earns an NFT that can unlock certain possibilities and privileges in the ecosystem. This would encourage the building of a healthy reputation. What about the use of such NFTs as collaterals for DeFi, etc.

@taskmaster4450le had mused in the part about tokenizing a user's reputation, but certainly not this present design. I'll share more about this.

Indeed, there is more about an engagement-based reputation for a social media platform like Hive.

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