I'm guessing the plan is to evolve this into some sort of a web service. "Algorithms" have gotten a bad rep because of big tech, but if it's opensource, gives people freedom of choice, and doesn't skew towards one side whether it's Trump or Biden or Kim Jong Un, it IS free speech.

If gatekeepers start deciding search results for millions of people, then it goes the other way (what Google has become today).

If the idea of "information rating system" is to allow anyone to rate anyone without worrying about being censored, it's probably going in the right direction. I have no idea how this could be defined mathematically, or in code. But if you can do it, build it on top of Hive, facilitate discoverability, Hive might actually start competing against big tech.

You'd go into all sorts of questions like what validates a certain rating or identity etc. Dan got lazy and tried this with horrendous KYC for Voice. I think you're aiming for something better, more objective. I have questions like what stops someone with a lot resources from controlling a group of bots to create a fake network? Or what IS identity in this system? What gives one rating more relevance to me vs another rating?

Hive voting and "trending" right now is nothing more than "who's the richest person on Hive and what does he/she think?" It has zero relevance to me. Posts like this kinda make me think there's potential for something more enticing. I'd love to see more details laid out and perhaps opensource code?