Weighted Reaction System v3

[antonkomarev]

Motivation

To have more control over the reaction influence.

Use cases

Electoral Systems

In electoral systems voting power (reaction weight) may depends on where you live in (reaction gravity).

Advertisement

Hype up effect. Advertiser (reactant owner) may pay for the quicker results (temporary decrease reaction gravity).

Social Networking

Posts (reactant) in natural disasters community (reactant scope) are very important (have higher gravity) and should spread worldwide faster.

Social Communities

Comment (reactant) or its author (reactant owner) might have handicap (lower gravity) as part of the community self-moderation system.

Example: Have more influence on the vote weight with Authority on Dirty.ru

Proposal

Introduce Reaction Gravity to weight computation formula.

weight = mass * rate

Reaction Gravity

Reaction Gravity represents environment around the reactant and will affect on the reaction weight.

weight = mass * rate * gravity

Default value: 1.0

Reaction Force

Gravity does not affect on Reaction Force. It's just Reaction Weight formula from Weighted Reaction System v2.

force = mass * rate

I'm not sure if we need to expose Reaction Force in API at this moment because I don't see any real life use cases for its usage.

Draft Features for v4

Reacter Power

Reacter Power represents reserve of strength which could be used to increase rate of the reactions.

Power reserve logic depends on the business requirements, it could be:

infinite
finite
finite but refillable
...