[p2p-research] Donation Networks

[Samuel Rose]

Services seem legitimate to me.

If someone requested donation of services, and you were able to fulfill that
request, and they "thank" you, then this would seem to me to work as well as
material goods.

You would be gifting time/services.

The theory is that people would then be more likely to help you with
whatever it is that you need, because you are consistently good at
participating and keeping the system healthy.

If you were to start participation in this system, you might search for
people who are looking for what you can offer, so that you can build your
reputation in the system. The system should also reward those that give to
those with higher ratings/reputations. This "reward" goes towards your total
reputation, along with "thank yous".

(I copied Tara Hunt on this, on the chance that she is still interested in
this stuff. She was working on a related idea called Spread Love a while
back http://www.spreadloveproject.com/ )


On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> glad to see you back here, after a very long hiatus ...
>
> I have just a question:
>
> - would it also work outside of exchange or gifting, i.e. for people such
> as myself, who provide 'general services' for a community of interested
> people?
>
> Michel
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear P2P Research,
>>
>> After some months working privately with agent based Altruism and
>> Cooperation models, I am working towards initiating an experiment with with
>> a small number regional and continental participants in creating a balanced
>> donation and distribution system.
>>
>> The system is fairly simple:
>>
>> Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person
>> maintains a "reputation" that is based on a "thank you" that is received
>> from the person they have donated to.  A tracking system monitors the
>> "carrying capacity" of donations. "thank you" assignments to participants
>> are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each
>> participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system as a
>> whole.
>>
>> Total satisfaction, plus a "thank you" (which is seen in the system as
>> individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against satisfactory
>> receipt of donations (where you "thank" the other person, and thus add to
>> their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met,  would then
>> give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more, or
>> improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to maintain
>> total "health" of the system.
>>
>> In the United States, this is my proposal as a route for people to
>> distribute regulated goods like food items, fuel production/ingredients, etc
>> in way that is legal, and that avoids "market" exchanges (it is legal to
>> donate or give items to one another in the fashion proposed above).
>>
>> As local food systems, and open product design/fabrication activity is
>> already increasing, myself and others are seeing the above as a plausible
>> way to pool and share resources. Your thoughts are appreciated.
>> --
>> Sam Rose
>> Social Synergy
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>>
>>
>>
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>> he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
>> he is very probably wrong."
>>
>>    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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Sam Rose
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"When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong."

   Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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