Forum

The Forum is the repository of every official action a DAO takes under DGF. An action is official if it has been subjected to a Validation Pool. The Forum smart contract (FSC), along with the Validation Pool smart contract (VPSC), form the back-end of DGF. The Forum is a basic component of DGF flow.

Forum as a component of DGF flow

Structure

The Forum has the mathematical structure of a weighted directed acyclic graph (WDAG).

The Forum as a DAG

The nodes of the graph are the posts, and the edges are the references. The Forum is acyclic since older posts cannot reference newer posts. The nodes are weighted by REP values. The REP value of postK is denoted $R_{K}\geq 0$. The edges are weighted by the strength of the references ${\textstyle r_{K,J}\in [-1,1]}$. A positive reference ${\textstyle r_{K,J}>0}$ indicates postK donates the fraction $r_{K,J}$ of the value $R_{K}$ to the REP value of postJ. A negative reference ${\textstyle r_{K,J}<0}$ means postK leaches the fraction $r_{K,J}$ of the value $R_{J}$ from the REP value of postJ.

Main page: Forum reference mechanisms

Fig. 2: Graph definitions

Thus the Forum WDAG is both an edge-weighted and node-weighted graph. The edge weights are static. The node weights are dynamic, since the node REP values change as new posts reference them or their descendants.