I trust myself more than the operator.
If I understand it correctly only the person from who's perspective the grapevine is calculated will score 100, not the operator of the calculation service.
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Even if your understanding of how it is supposed to work is correct, you still trust the fact that that is actually how it works. I.e. you already trust the operator a priory the calculation.
Yup, a dishonest operator could def do some shenanigans. Which is why it’s so important that Brainstorm is open source so you can run it yourself! Ideally that’s exactly what everyone would do. Maybe eventually that’s exactly what will happen. But we realize that realistically, that won’t happen, which is why we’re setting it up so a tech-savvy person can run a Brainstorm instance as operator, garner “customers” (or simply friends / family) and calculate scores on their behalf.
That’s correct: if we’re calculating the Grapevine from your perspective, then your 🍇-influence score is pegged at 1 (which shows up as 100 when we convert it to rank and show it on most clients). All other users are unpegged.