[seiji]

In which case accumulation of units does not imply the long-term ability to use them; instead, there will be a long-term incentive for participants to maintain a good reputation.

There's an important distinction here: the score of your peers versus the score of your government/authority.

It's possible your peers love you while your government hates you. Maybe you do great work, but are a pain to the power structure. In that case, you end up with high peer ratings, low "political office" ratings.

If the goal is "orderly citizens," then the political ratings become more viral (as in, the people you associate with get boosted or discounted based on your Official Political Office Rating) and try to reinforce people conform to how The Political Office wishes people would behave.

We can even make this local to HN. HN has secret "political rankings" on accounts to restrict the reach of people the "HN establishment" doesn't like (HI DANG), but the public vote counts are more peer-oriented rankings (which still aren't perfect because HN has 3 to 5 distinct sub-cultures fighting against each other, so a +100 from the "VCs are evil bastards" subculture in the morning gets canceled out in the afternoon once SF wakes up and you get -200 from the "VCs are genius darlings and we should all kiss their feet" subculture).

[siosonel]

I think the best way to address the issue of how reputations are determined is to let "sellers" or payment recipients decide on who they want to benefit from their goods and services.

So, in the digital currency system that I have prototyped [1], each team decides on which recommender system they want to provide advise, in real-time, on whether to accept or reject a payment offer from another team. Borrowing from your examples, one team could use an "advisor" developed by the HN staff, another team could use an "advisor" endorsed by the subculture you identify with, etc.

There are many issues that I have worked out in the prototype, such as making sure payments are always traceable to the issuer and inflation is decentrally regulated, and most of the solution comes from the budgets-as-currency approach. I'm still in the process of improving the advisor options with better data-science techniques (hopefully with contributions from others). [2]

[1] https://tatag.cc/ui/home-about [2] https://github.com/siosonel/tatag-api