Introducing the Rating System

Today, I’m very glad to introduce to you ratings in Rein.

Whenever a job is finished, you can give a rating on a 5-star scale to whomever you have worked with.

To begin, we will summarize ratings based on averages. So if you get rated three stars by one person and five stars by another your average rating will be four stars.

The next step will be to summarize ratings as a trust score that uses iterative, weighted averages. Though no reputation system is perfect, we think this will help prevent fraud, abuse, and exploitation of the system.

It will also allow us to build a strong web of trust that will help you estimate how likely a user is to behave honestly.

For now, all ratings are final, but in a near future update we will add timestamps so that older ratings can be ignored. This is planned for next month.

Aside from that, in our new version 0.3.1, we’ve included the following updates:

• Increased security during setup by removing a mnemonic bypass bug
• Localized at runtime based on your computer’s settings,
• Restructured tests to use the Nose framework,
• You can now hide mediators, bids, and jobs that you’re not interested in,
• And we included several smaller usability updates, to the mediator options, command line setup, and database storage.

We hope that this update will further increase interest in our community, and allow us to grow the platform significantly in the near future.

If you would like to join us simply head to: https://reinproject.org. There you can subscribe to our newsletter to get day-by-day instructions on getting going with the platform.

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Sincerely,

David Sterry