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I literally did a course where they taught me
you are, and it’s completely detached from the not to roll my eyes when people talk. Your
important things in your life. reputation is how many of those tokens
Now we can measure those things, we can you’ve earned, not how many you have.
offer tokens for them. In your organization, or So if I have money in the bank right now, it
between organizations, you can have these represents how much money I kept. But if
tokens. you look at all the money I earned from every
Tokens that represent how happy or unhappy job I’ve ever had, that’s my professional re-
your company made you. Or, if you’re really putation in some way. You have to factor it
cool to other people in the company, you get up because I’m a woman so, you know, give
more of these tokens. Maybe they represent a me 10% extra. So, that’s in some way my pro-
bonus, or maybe they’re part of the nice per- fessional reputation. All of the money I ear-
son token or whatever it is, appreciative to- ned over all of my career. But, the money I
ken. Or, meaningful feedback tokens. People have in the bank isn’t the same. When people
who were really good at giving you meaning- talk about staking tokens, you have to be very
ful feedback get tokens, and they can maybe careful that people can’t exactly buy staking
spend them on the market. You could label tokens, and that the way that they buy them
the values that we think are valuable, like be- really represents their stake.
ing kind to other people and giving valuable Again, if you own Bitcoins then you have a
feedback. stake in Bitcoin, but that’s because it’s money.
You’ll be able to tell whether somebody is ar- If you own Steem, you may or may not be so-
tificially nice by the ratio between their kind- mebody who posts a video on Steemit becau-
ness or constructive feedback. se, you can go buy a lot of Steem and get a
„That guy’s a phony, he has no constructive lot of reputation.
feedback tokens, he only has ‚being kind’ to- So, their reputation tokens are separate from
kens. Don’t believe what he says, he’s full of them buying tokens. So then, if you sell your
it.” reputation tokens, you’re still a really cool
If that person’s a bit of a jerk and they don’t person and all of your reputation tokens that
have any kindness tokens, but if you need fe- you’ve ever earned, not bought, would factor
edback, go to them because they have a lot into your reputation in that area of being.
of honest feedback tokens. Then you build a If you have a record of all the tokens you ear-
reputation. There’s a mistake we do with to- ned in each one of these categories, we know
kens, when we talk about reputation and sta- a lot about you. This guy’s a really good de-
king tokens, and we don’t know how to fix this veloper, he earned a lot of Java development
yet even though we can, technologically. tokens. This guy is a really good communica-
Reputation is obviously many things. I have tor, he talks to us and gives us ‚help’ tokens.
a reputation for saying it like it is. I don’t have We can know a lot about you in an infinite num-
as many ‚nice’ tokens as other people. I have ber of ways. Maybe I’m not doing it, but the
more ‚honest feedback’ tokens than ‚nice’ artificial intelligence is saying, we need some
ones, but I’ve gotten older so my proportions group of people to clean the river and to make
of niceness are improving. When I was young, a good decision about how to restore the fishe-
I would roll my eyes. ry where the fish are dying down the river.
This is completely detached from how happy