creativecommons / creativecommons/commoners

Keep fuller track of vouches - And allow for them to express more than just _entering_ the community!

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Hi,

I'm not entirely sure I should open an issue on this, as I want to push a different *vision* on what you can do with the vouching system. I have briefly chatted with some of you regarding some work that can stem from analyzing interaction / social graphs such as the "certification mesh" you are building, and I believe it's worth taking a look.

As far as I currently understand it, the "Commoners" vouching system is meant only to decide whether a given person should be given the privilege to join a select group. Two *vouching members* will hopefully grant me the honor to be One Of You™. But with (I believe) little extra effort (and some creative thinking+programming as to how to incentivize people to actually do it, of course!), this can become an workable excercise on how CC builds a community.

If we were to ask people not *only* to get two vouchers, but for each to keep their profile updated with new interactions we hold, we can create a viewable history of the CC community. Who met whom when? What kind of interactions did they have? Maybe "Commoners" should support more than one kind of edges — What kind of work have you done together? What links you here? Can we show that collaboration in creative development breeds friendship? Or the other way around? Do "minor worlds" to which each of us belong tend to merge together as we spend more times active in CC, or not?

This could lead, in a couple of years time, to interesting analysis and visualizations, and could become a nice showcase of how CC actually works.

It could, of course, just flop as "yet another stupid social network with no real purpose" :-]

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