It's the proper term (and was in use before influencers were a thing). It's a captured term now, like crypto.
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As long as we can turn it off 🤝
Think of it as (part of) a #WebOfTrust score. It can be incredibly useful in the right context.
I like the mechanism of wot but I don’t like the concept of a score. I get that it’s mathematically needed but I don’t want to have any type of score visible next to name or pfp. If it’s something along the lines of a label like “trusted” that’s a bit better. Just the score part feels wrong.
Fair! Like you say, there's still gonna be a score "underneath" that dictates whether the label should be shown or not, and defining any such threshold is always more art than science too, but I get your point.
My hope is that we won't reinvent the wheel all the time. A lot of good research exists in the world of graphs and networks, and these centrality measures are solid. We'll make a lot of mistakes and miss lots of good stuff if we try to come up with our own naive metrics for everything.