Forum

The Forum as a DAG

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 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 edges are weighted by the strength of the references.

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.

Posts

Posts are basic entries in the database that is the Forum. The posts contain 1. text meant to be human readable, 2. smart contracting language, 3. a unique NFT associated with the post which defines the author of the post as the owner and the REP value for the post.

The REP value of postK is denoted $R_{K}\geq 0$ which is a dynamic variable which changes as the post is referenced by future posts.

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References

Main page: Forum reference mechanisms

References are weighted ${\textstyle r_{K,J}\in [-1,1]}$ . A positive reference ${\textstyle r_{K,J}>0}$ indicates postK donates the fraction $r_{K,J}$ of its value $R_{K}$ to increase the REP value of postJ by the amount $r_{K,J}*R_{K}$ . 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.\