Tipping Protocol for Increased Community Engagement

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Hey Lido Members,

We’ve developed a tipping protocol that helps boost community engagement by rewarding valuable contributors. (With points, crypto or reputation) - on-chain

We want to gauge interest by first seeing where it would be most useful for DAOs.

I have two questions:

  1. Would you be interested in enabling users to tip each other here on discourse? (The idea being to increase engagement of native members)
  2. Would you be interested in increasing engagement for your tweets? (By rewarding users who like/ retweet or comment on your tweets)

This will help us know what’s most interesting to you. The protocol is ready and I’m happy to share links if there is interest in taking a look. :slight_smile:

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The idea of tipping in the form of reputation on Discourse sounds the most interesting to me. However, my main question is about the system’s resilience to bots and manipulation—how do you ensure that reputation can’t be artificially inflated?

Additionally, do you have examples of this system being used elsewhere? If so, what results or insights were achieved?

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“Reputation tipping” reminds me of SourceCred, it was a system that tracked actions across Discourse (likes or replies to posts), Github (PRs and others) and Discord (replies and emoji reactions, etc) which were then converted into a reputational score for the individual.

Projects like 1Hive, Aragon and even Maker once used SourceCred to reward contributions with tokens based on the accured reputation over time—unfortunately analysis like these Maker SourceCred Report showed that it’s hard to determine if it had quantitative effects on the community.

Personally not that bullish on reputation systems, but curious to see what @the_skyfoxx has in their hands.

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Thanks @Jenya_K and @enti for the thoughtful responses.

The SourceCred report is interesting. We currently don’t have an example of the system being used elsewhere (currently collecting feedback so this is helpful)

There is no current way to prevent reputation inflation, although we could conceivably use gitcoin’s passport as a solution for that.

Thanks again for the feedback, which I will review more carefully.