1. IntroductionRegardless of the fact that on the DT1 voting process does not consider the Merit one sends to the Custom Trust List, they are likely not dissociable. My idea here was to see just how much a relationship there was between the composition of our Custom Trust Lists, and the merits we receive or send from out Custom Trust List forum members.
Conceptually, it would not strike me as odd that some of the people we place on our Custom Trust Lists were also people who had sent or received merit from us merits. After all, trusting someone, in the broad sense of the term, may have a correlation to how we interact with them on the forum, and Merit is one of those possible measures of interaction.
Notes:
-Trust data as of 23/02/2019, Merit data as of 22/02/2019.
- I've only taken into account positive trust relationships, discarding for this exercise the distrust relationships. Therefore, there are 3.861 considered Custom Trust Networks with 25.845 positive trust relationships.
2. All Custom Trust Networks - Percentage of Merit received from our Custom Trust NetworkWhat I have done here is, for each Custom Trust Network, determine what percentage of our earned merit is originated from members pertaining to our Custom Trust Network.
I’ve done this in first instance considering all existing Personal Trust Networks, in order to get a general idea, but since many Custom Network owners are inactive (old Custom Networks), I’ve subsequently filtered by 2018 and onwards active Custom Network owner, 2019 active Custom Network owner, and eventually … DT1 Custom Network Owners.
All Trust Networks 2018 Active onwards 2019 Active onwards DT1
PMeritsTrustNetwork nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks %
0% 3358 86,97% 2248 81,72% 610 58,15% 1 01,85%
( 0% .. 20%) 145 03,76% 145 05,27% 133 12,68% 16 29,63%
[20% .. 40%) 108 02,80% 108 03,93% 100 09,53% 16 29,63%
[40% .. 60%) 85 02,20% 85 03,09% 78 07,44% 14 25,93%
[60% .. 80%) 60 01,55% 60 02,18% 56 05,34% 5 09,26%
[80% .. 100%) 33 00,85% 33 01,20% 27 02,57% 2 03,70%
100% 72 01,86% 72 02,62% 45 04,29% 0 00,00%
Total 3861 100,00% 2751 100,00% 1049 100,00% 54 100,00%
Columns:
PMeritsTrustNetwork: Percentage of earned merit received by the Custom Trust Network owner, from people within his Custom Trust Network.
nTrustNetworks: Number of Custom Trust Networks.
%: Percentage of Custom Trust Networks with a given range of PMeritsTrustNetwork.
What we can see above is that:
a) The overall picture shows that 86,97% of all Custom Trust Networks owners have not received any merits from their Custom Trust Network. This is true, but a kind of ‘fake news’ in a sense, since many of those networks were constituted prior to the Merit System, and more often than not involve people who are no longer active.
If we look at the same row for column 2018 onwards active Custom Trust Network owners, the figure is still pretty high (81,72%), but taking it to 2019 active Custom Trust Network owners reduces the figure to 58,15%. That is still a rather high figure of people who include others in their network who have never merited the Custom Network Owner.
DT1 is obviously not independent from Merits. The voting algorithm has them as a centre piece, so it is no real surprise that only one Custom Trust Network (1,85%) has not received any Merit from it’s components.
b) If we aggregate the amount of Custom Networks where the Custom Trust Network owner has received 60% or above of his Merit from people belonging to his own Custom Trust List, then the overall figure is 4,27%. For those Custom Trust Network owners active from 2018 onwards, the percentage is of 6,00%, and moves on to 12,20% for those that are active during 2019. The figure is of 12,96% from DT1 Custom Trust List owners.
c) The in between area, [20..60%) of Merit received from people belonging to our own Custom Trust Lists, is 5,00% overall, 7,02% for those Custom Trust Network owners active from 2018 onwards, 16,97% for those active during 2019 and 55,56% for those that belong to DT1.
3. All Custom Trust Networks - Percentage of Merit sent to our Custom Trust NetworkLikewise, the same exercise considering the amount of Merit we have sent to each of the same groups (columns):
All Trust Networks 2018 Active onwards 2019 Active onwards DT1
PMeritsToTrustNetwork nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks % nTrustNetworks %
0 3365 87,15% 2255 81,97% 604 57,58% 1 01,85%
( 0% .. 20%) 179 04,64% 179 06,51% 171 16,30% 23 42,59%
[20% .. 40%) 129 03,34% 129 04,69% 122 11,63% 18 33,33%
[40% .. 60%) 66 01,71% 66 02,40% 62 05,91% 8 14,81%
[60% .. 80%) 36 00,93% 36 01,31% 32 03,05% 3 05,56%
[80% .. 100%) 20 00,52% 20 00,73% 16 01,53% 1 01,85%
1 66 01,71% 66 02,40% 42 04,00% 0 00,00%
Total 3861 100,00% 2751 100,00% 1049 100,00% 54 100,00%
All the data can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15FyX0Y6o0GgOcxzbAu0Bc-5kv7vwBnBpdpMb_2YPbdo/edit?usp=sharing.
As an example, these are my ratios that can be found on the above spreadsheet:
isDT1: no
UserfromName:DdmrDdmr
nTrusts: 10
nREceivedTotalMerits: 1796
nReceivedMeritsFromTrustNetwork: 587
PMeritsFromTrustNetwork: 32,68%
nTotalSentMerits: 1247
nSentMeritsToTrustNetwork: 180
PMeritsToTrustNetwork: 14,43%
So it turns out I have received 32,68% of my merits from people that belong to my Custom Trust Network, and sent to them 14,43% of the total amount of Merits I have sent, being my positive trust list made by 10 forum members (see
Personal Trust Network).
As I expected, there is some obvious correlation between Custom Trust Network composition and the merits we receive/send to them. The figure varies largely from person to person, and is higher if we focus on DT1 components.
