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If your goal is to put pubkeys in order, PR and GR can both serve that purpose in a meaningful way. May as well do the one that is easier to calculate.

If your goal is to do anything that requires a pubkey-specific WEIGHT, such as tallying votes or doing a weighted average, GrapeRank is better than PageRank because PR is inherently a popularity contest, and most of us don’t want weight to be proportional to popularity. Most of us want weights to be proportional to merit or quality, in the relevant context.

GrapeRank is inherently designed to create contextual scores. One context might be designed to distinguish real users from bots, ie a binary outcome (this is the GR score currently available on my site). Another context (I have not yet implemented on my site) might be designed to reflect a pubkey’s expertise in some topic on a scale from min to max. Either of these scores are suitable to be used as the pubkey’s weight in the relevant context.

It’s not clear to me how to do this with classical PageRank. Unless you modify it, of course.

vinney...axkl 11mo ago 💬 1

The subjective nature is key here.

My idea of pubkey N's expertise in X may be different than your idea of pubkey's N expertise. We should see pubkeyN ordered differently as a result.

This solves a ridiculous number of societal problems!

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david 11mo ago

Absolutely! The Grapevine is designed specifically to reflect the values and beliefs of YOU, the end user.

If you trust zaps more than follows, or vice versa, then adjust the relevant weights accordingly. The community will need a developer to write the script to ingest follows and zaps into the GrapeRank system, but once that’s done, the average user (who is not necessarily a skilled developer) will have the power to customize his or her Grapevine according to his or her values and beliefs.