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Trust Scores

Any system that pools citizen decisions has one fatal weakness: whoever can manufacture people wins. Bots are cheap, paid accounts are cheaper than lobbying, and a purchased crowd is indistinguishable from a real one unless something distinguishes it.

A trust score is that something. It is how a citizen becomes a countable member of a mesh of real people — and the mesh, not the individual number, is the thing doing the work.

What a trust score is​

  • A citizen-side score, about you, earned by you. Unlike anything published about a politician — which is always an award, never a score — this is a citizen earning standing for their own work.
  • Compatible with anonymity. A fully pseudonymous citizen can reach the top rung. Trust here means there is one real person behind this, not we know your name.
  • Built from a mesh, not a database. Standing comes from your position among other real citizens, which is why a farm of fresh accounts cannot manufacture it.

What a trust score is not​

  • Not a social credit score. It cannot close your bank account, remove your access to anything, or follow you off this platform. The full comparison is on No Social Credit Score.
  • Not merit, and not karma. Merit weight is Meritocracy; logged citizen work is Karma. Different ledgers, on purpose.
  • Not for sale. Money buys nothing here, and that is written down as a rule so it cannot later be presented as an obvious optimisation.

Built and voted on the party doors​

Trust is built and voted on at the party level — WeCitizensR.com, WeCitizensD.com, WeCitizensL.com and WeCitizensSocialism.com. That is where a community actually knows its own people well enough to vouch for them, and where the voting happens.

The read-only roll-up here​

This non-partisan site carries a roll-up stitched together from the party doors, and it is read only. You can see the shape of the mesh from here. You cannot vote on it from here.

That is deliberate. Voting on trust is an act inside a community you belong to. The .io door is where the cross-party picture is visible; the door you belong to is where you act. See One App, Four Doors.

The mesh, and what it defends against​

A mesh of verified real citizens is what turns "anyone can post" into "someone real decided". It is the working defense against the three things that otherwise decide a public conversation:

  • Bots — volume with nobody behind it.
  • Intelligence services — foreign or domestic, running accounts that look like constituents. See Foreign Intelligence and US Intelligence.
  • Paid influencers and propagandists — real people, purchased reach, presented as organic citizen opinion.

None of these are answered by censorship, and this site proposes none. They are answered by counting only real citizens, which makes the purchased version worthless without silencing anyone.

What is not in this area​

  • Voting on a trust score — that only happens on a party door.
  • Citizen merit and citizen points — those are Meritocracy and Karma.

Pages in this area​

Where to go next​

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