RE: User Authority - a personal look
These UA posts are tough to get folks involved in the comments :)
... it seems to miss the engagement levels of users which is of course, very hard to quantify I will assume but, when it comes to interaction between users, it will have to be measured at some point.
Hard to quantify and possibly more open to abuse, but an approach from this angle would be interesting to see.
I agree with the points re: witnesses, it's hard to see who's up there without 'just being a witness'.
I think in time it and others will develop various methods to rank and sort users for various purposes. SMTs are likely to use these algorithms to affect user experience...
Yup, and perhaps not one solution will fit all SMT - if they have a set of these to pick and choose to integrate, depending on the goals of the token then this could be beneficial.
A lot of data points and would require profiling behaviours which means some behavioural psychologists, and behavioural economists and the like to build. Just like FB use.
I think they will experiment based on their target market and see if they are able to drive behaviours that support their particular platform.
Some engagement, not a great deal :)