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RE: Steemit's Reputation Score System In Plain English
this was quite enlightening...
with all the debate about the legitimacy of flagging in general, the rising awareness about plagiarism and spam, this is some really valuable input!
since you've done all this research, can you give me a definite answer on whether reputation on steemit.com is maintained anywhere on the blockchain? My assumption is that it's not. The reputation score is only calculated and "used" for the site steemit.com and not on the steem blockchain?!
I think you are right. Here is a blockchain entry for one of your recent votes
It only includes information about who made the vote, who received the vote, a link to the post/comment, the vote weight, and a transaction ID number.
Now that I think about it, I'm sure the blockchain doesn't have any reputation information on it because there is a bit of code that checks to see if the post author has a reputation entry in the database before it tries to change the value. If it finds that the author has no reputation entry then it creates an entry when the first vote is cast.
The notes in the code make it clear that the reputation calculation is not set in stone. It can be changed without creating a fork in the chain. I suppose if you wanted to change the formula you could do that by reprocessing the entire blockchain from end to end to apply the new formula to all of the old content and also change the formula that is used to update the off-chain database.
awesome... thanks for digging up all that.
so basically it should be really easy to set up a condenser clone without reputation scoring and without "censoring" downvoted posts...
that's kind of meaningful to this whole censorship and "to-flag-or-not-to-flag" debate.