Editing DAO Governance Framework (section)

=== Reputation ===
''Main page: [[Reputation]]''

DAO participants shall be awarded with reputation tokens for contributions which the other DAO members deem valuable. 

Reputation token types should be specific to the [[Reputation#6. Limited Domain|relevant domain]] of action. For instance, a typical primary DAO begins with three distinct kinds of reputation:
*'''REP''' - Work product reputation
*'''gREP''' - Governance reputation
*'''cREP''' - Comment reputation 

REP is associated with a work product. When members do work directly with the public they receive REP tokens. Usually, REP value is minted in proportion to the fees the worker earned for the DAO. 

gREP is associated with proposals to modify the DAO's governance parameters. This is what we consider governance of the hard protocols in the system. gREP may be staked toward new proposals. Successful proposals shall attribute new gREP to their authors and supporters. It is likely that there will be a close relationship between gREP and REP since successful workers will likely have the best understanding about how to improve a DAOs protocols for work. In this case there is no need for a distinction in many DAOs.

cREP plays an important role in the [[Governance#Soft protocols|soft protocols]] governing the organization. Fundamentally a DAO is a group of individuals. Their behavior will be shaped partly by the communication that occurs among them. Comments will be a central vehicle for this communication. Each organization may develop its own ways of associating meaning with comments. An organization may want its participants to be able to stake their own reputation toward promoting particular comments, and toward suppressing others. Our goal is to enable each community to articulate its own values, in a way that is transparent for the community as well as the public to observe.

cREP is the most difficult REP token to valuate. A typical comment will likely be submitted without any associated cash fees when they are first posted in the Forum. DGF has options for DAO founders for making an initial protocol for valuing such tokens which do not have the grounding value of cash money. For instance a variation on the [[wikipedia:PageRank|PageRank algorithm]] can be used to weight the Forum's WDAG based solely on the strength of edges without requiring weights of nodes. However, before any type of REP token is grounded with the concrete meaning gained by being associated with money, the system is particularly susceptible to gaming. The basic PageRank algorithm, for instance, can be gamed by spamming the Forum with self-referential posts driven by [[wikipedia:Sock_puppet_account|sockpuppets]].