While I believe rep is useless (our top 10 rep users are the worst users on Hive like SteemCleaners, KingsCrown, SteemSports), I am not convinced KE is the solution. It is probably a better metric than Reputation, but there are many reasons to sell, and once the tokens are in a users wallet they are free to use do what they want with them. I don't think it's a bad idea to use a users stake to decide if users are committed to Hive, it's not always a black and white thing. Many people have their reasons and I wouldn't look down on someone who is struggling in life, but is producing good content in the community.
That being said, reputation is absolutely useless and is only a measure of how many upvotes a user has received.
KE also fails to differentiate between cashing out and giving Hive away. I do that a lot, almost every day. That increases my score. Donations to other Hive users shows the opposite of what the KE score is trying to capture, financial self interest, that KE uses selling Hive for cash as a proxy for. This is a weakness in KE, although one that would be insuperably difficult to account properly. It would be impossible to determine whether Hive or HBD sent to another user was payment for something received off chain, as you surely are aware.
Rep is really a personal matter. As you point out, some of the worst people get the highest rep (just like in real life), and that's because institutions are inhuman and can't represent human values. How you regarded someone might be meaningful to me, but how Trending regards someone is not valued by me (it might even reduce my regard for them), and that's what the current reputation metric reports.
Sure thing I understand the tool should say so called "Respectful"
While I believe rep is useless (our top 10 rep users are the worst users on Hive like SteemCleaners, KingsCrown, SteemSports), I am not convinced KE is the solution. It is probably a better metric than Reputation, but there are many reasons to sell, and once the tokens are in a users wallet they are free to use do what they want with them. I don't think it's a bad idea to use a users stake to decide if users are committed to Hive, it's not always a black and white thing. Many people have their reasons and I wouldn't look down on someone who is struggling in life, but is producing good content in the community.
That being said, reputation is absolutely useless and is only a measure of how many upvotes a user has received.
Rep can only do one thing...if it is above 70 you know that the user is around for a while, enough to know that some things aren't good ;)
KE also fails to differentiate between cashing out and giving Hive away. I do that a lot, almost every day. That increases my score. Donations to other Hive users shows the opposite of what the KE score is trying to capture, financial self interest, that KE uses selling Hive for cash as a proxy for. This is a weakness in KE, although one that would be insuperably difficult to account properly. It would be impossible to determine whether Hive or HBD sent to another user was payment for something received off chain, as you surely are aware.
Rep is really a personal matter. As you point out, some of the worst people get the highest rep (just like in real life), and that's because institutions are inhuman and can't represent human values. How you regarded someone might be meaningful to me, but how Trending regards someone is not valued by me (it might even reduce my regard for them), and that's what the current reputation metric reports.
I agree. KE is not a solution for rep.