Forum

The Forum as a DAG

The Forum is the open repository of every official action a DAO takes under DGF. Thus, the Forum contains every comment any DAO member has ever made, every governance proposal, the history of the development of every smart contract used, and the history of each member's work for the public. By definition a DAO action is official if it has been subjected to a Validation Pool, so the Forum also holds the record of every vote the DAO has ever made.

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.

There are many different Forums. Each DAO has its own Forums, one for each of the different types of REP it uses.

Overview

Using the public UI, a customer can engage a member of the DAO to do work by encumbering the required fee in the official Work smart contract (WSC). The Forum is the place the public UI finds the current WSC, as well as the human-readable language which advertises the value of the DAO to the non-expert and instructions for use.

Forum as a component of DGF flow

The Forum is also the environment where the public can audit the effectiveness of the DAO, since the transparent nature of a primary DAO naturally encourages maximal information on the history of customer satisfaction.

For members, the Forum holds the most current protocols for successful collaboration with the rest of the DAO. The member UI searches the Forum to find the most up-to-date smart contracts such as the Availability smart contract and Work smart contract, as well as holding information on education which mentors new workers in how to successfully work for the DAO and how to govern it.

The Forum holds the history of every governmental action the DAO has performed, including debates on protocol development and value statements and explicit goals the DAO has agreed on. This transparency allows the public to audit the DAO's history of REP evolution and governance parameters so that they can measure the DAO's performance against its advertised values, in order to objectively to gauge the DAO's integrity before using it. (See Main article: Reputation tokenomics.) The Forum therefore solves the business problem of building history and integrity in a DAO filled with pseudonymous international members.

Abstract 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.\