The way I found most people I follow was by that person replying to one of my notes. I saw that they had a low WoT score, but I liked what they had to say, so I followed them to boost their score as well as to see their notes more often.
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What is a WoT score?
I once followed a link to a client that scored everyone on the nostr , I can’t actually remember what the scores were based on but I was surprised mine was so high given I never really say that much. I’m sorry I can’t be more help right now , if the link comes round again I’ll tag you in 🫂
Now I'm curious about this. I don't even know what my WoT score might be.
It depends who's looking. My WoT for you is 19.
Hmmm. Is that high or lower? Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not versed in the WoT score. Amethyst doesn't make it obvious, or at least I don't see it within that client.
It all depends. I follow relatively few people, so a score of 19 is relatively higher than for a person who follows thousands of people. For me, a score of 19 means "this person is definitely who they say they are, and they have a certain level of popularity", whereas a person with score of say 3 could be either an impersonator or just someone with few followers.
Interesting! You are a wealth of information! I appreciate it! Thanks for helping me understand this!
No problem! I know a lot about this because I invented this particular algorithm, so YMMV when using clients other than Coracle 😂
Care to share the formula? I know it will be ad-hoc. I haven't coded any WoT yet so it would help me think about it.
Its very simple, it's just the number of people you follow who also follow a given person. I also took mutes into account by subtracting pow(2, log(n)) from the follow score where n is the number of people you follow who mute a given account.
essentially it generates a graph out of all of your follows, and their follows follows, and their follows follows
it walks the graph and computes a weight for each, which technically could be a kind hamming distance, combined with a graph weighting
so to compute each WoT score it must repeatedly walk through each of your follows, check their follows, and search for a given candidate to evaluate
it's not as complicated as it sounds, but it is as complicated as it sounds
it's highly effective and honestly personally apart from irritating problems i have lately due to refusing to use free relays coracle's automated filtering is amazing
You devs amaze me. I have a basic understanding of web coding and I'm just blown away by what you guys do. Much respect friend! 😎😎
In Coracle, you can "log in as" any other use and then visit your profile and you'll see your WoT score from that person's perspective.