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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @elvismercury 19h \ on: SN release: make lightning addr only works with attached wallets, bug fixes meta
Be interested to hear how the trust algo was borked, and how it's de-borked now, if the explanation is not too onerous to make.
Borking:
- I updated the lib we use for linear algebra, and the api changed (without any notice being posted), so we effectively stopped updating trust scores when I updated the lib and I failed to notice until a few weeks ago.
- Also, even prior to the lib borking, when someone lost trust completely we failed to remove the trust they should've lost.
Other changes:
- the effect is minimal in my testing and I plan to adjust further, but the amount each person zaps now matters when determining if they trust each other's zaps. If we zap similar amounts, I trust you more (ie the amount of trust gained for a zap is proportional to the ratio of our zap amounts).
- I also messed around with penalties for downzaps trying to account for the amount of money spent on a downzap relative to the upzap. This is very rough - I'm still trying to figure out how to achieve what I want with a function.
Planned changes:
- remove personalized ranking (at least for the forseeable future ... we don't have enough people zapping that it matters, and I've uncoverd some research on how to do it more efficiently should we add it back)
- give everyone a different trust score depending on the territory (I might know a lot about ~bitcoin but nothing about ~ai)
- make territory founders the seeds to an independent web of trust used to rank items in their territory ... currently they're constrained by the global trust web and can't deviate from global consensus sufficiently enough to create a new vibe.
- give everyone comment zapping trust scores in addition to post zapping trust scores.
- possibly also give everyone post and comment trust scores so their posts/comments can start out more favorably independent of zaps (stretch goal this one).
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Wow, thanks for the detailed answer, that's fantastic. Some of those planned changes are really interesting -- I like the territory-specific trust stores a lot, and the founders creating territory-specific "vibes".
This isn't really the place for it, but would love to know the state of your thinking sometime wrt the "elevating the prominence / discoverability of good comments" issue that we've talked about in various places at various times. Seems like one of the most important things yet to figure out.