Well, anyone can issue badges so not sure it makes it easier for strengthening identities/graphs? I’m no expert on social graphs etc so I might oversee something here.
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for example, if you know/trust someone and they have awarded (accepted?) a badge to (from?) other people you don’t know there might be some transference of trust?
Maybe but I gift my “GM’ers” badge to anyone writing gm notes. So if you made a social graph based on that badge, you’d have to trust many people I don’t necessarily trust.
well, it’s not like default trust for everything at all times. Always context dependent, right? If you do something that looks hacky/spammy I should prob use my judgment to try to understand what you’re indicating.