[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