SourceCred Guide to Community Empowerment
“SourceCred is a tool for governance, but not a replacement for governance”
The Graph
ballena.io is powered by the SourceCred graph. We, the BALLE community, build our own personal version of SourceCred that is tailored to our specific requirements and needs. It represents Decentralized Autonomous Value.
You can check our SourceCred instance here:
- Link: https://cred.ballena.io
ballena.io community can be modeled as a sum of our connections. Each connection you make to another human is recorded in the graph, tailoring your rewards to your engagement, and vice versa, others rewards to your (and the rest of the communities) engagement. To do this, SC created a specialized algorithm.
Cred
Enter Cred! But first…
How can you possibly assign a score to a person?
How can you assign value to a person?
Easy, WE don’t, YOU do.
The same systems Siri uses to listen and understand you is used in SourceCred to calculate your Cred score. Thousands/millions of balancing actions occur behind the graph to get you your number. This number, known as a Cred score, is your little percentage of the BALLE community.
Giving and Receiving Cred
- Rule 1: Cred is never lost.
- Rule 2: We can change the distribution rules anytime we want.
Cred is costless, inflationary, and intrinsic. That’s what makes it great. Cred is shareable. When you give Cred you do not lose Cred. instead you mint more Cred to give. Give Cred, and you’re more likely to get Cred in return. Just keep in mind: “With great power there must also come great responsibility”. Reward your heroes!
Weight System
SourceCred uses weights to measure how much Cred you want to give. Is important for you to understand that we can change this algorithm as much as we want. Anytime. You can suggest any proposal on vote.ballena.io.
These are the initial ballena.io weights:
Github
- Pull Request : 16 Cred
- PR Review : 1 Cred
Discord
- Weight — — — — Value
Channel weights
- # 💙 gracias — — 15x
- # 🎉 éxito — — — 12x
- # 🆘 soporte — — 3x
Role weights
- no role — — — — — -0x
- @ premium — — — 0x
- @ oldfags — — — — 0x
- @ contributors — — 2x
- @ team- leads — — 3x
Emoji weights
- 👎 emoji — — — — 0x
- 💥 emoji — —— — 0x
- all other emoji — — 1x
The weights apply multiplicatively, which means a emoji from a Team Lead member on the # 💙 gracias channel is worth 1 * 15 * 3 = 45 Cred.
Distribution of Grain (BALLE Token)
All of SourceCred’s effort gives us percentages. Percentages of the token that is distributed to each member. ballena.io can use these to dish out BALLE tokens. SourceCred provides us with what members have earned over this week and over all time. This can be deemed a verifiable fair distribution.
Learn More
If you are interested in learning more, check the SourceCred guide.
