isaac I would think that it would be productive to know what type of content Stellar is interested in promoting and work around that angle. It is a natural fit for Stellar to use Lumens to pay for content like Steem is now doing. The idea that you have to hold onto your steem tokens vs selling right away is an important element.
It is interesting that there are things in the public domain like the internet and GPS vs Face book that is mostly owned by 1 person. It would be ideal if a new system could be built. I wish you the best on your project

      StellarEconomy A Steem-like platform for Stellar does make a lot of sense, I agree. However, Isaac is less of a social networking/blogging service but instead focuses on collecting and analyzing reviews for existing content on the web. The flexibility of Isaac allows the platform to be applied to any type of content, but in the early stages we are focusing on a few key categories including news sources.

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        StellarEconomy True that, net neutrality goes both ways, I feel more and more segregated on places like FB and blog posts are limiting more and more opportunities to comment. We need something that goes beyond Steemit though because i found that the incentives where actually ruining the authenticity of the authors for the sole purpose of making money....decentralized social media needs decentralized incentives if they are to combine assets with social media.

            LukeSkywalker Thanks for supporting our concept. Restricted communities and echo-chambers certainly are a problem, which is why we designed Isaac to serve as an independant feedback layer on top of existing resources. We also agree that any kind of incentivized system is prone to abuse, which is why we do not reward producers of online content and instead encourage many users to review existing content. This way, we can utilize statistical methods to identify outliers in the evaluations such as bots and users trying to manipulate Isaac ratings. We will continue to improve our content abuse detection algorithms to help support our community of users seeking to provide reliable content reviews and comments in a sea of fake news and bot commentators.

                isaac Adding the term "echo-chamber" to my vocabulary.

                -Independant feedback layer on top of existing resources.
                -Incentivized system is prone to abuse

                Well looks like you can read my thoughts..I perfectly agree spot on.
                Steemit killed the purpose, fun and authenticity of writing...how will you detect those groups of people that mutually,kissup to each other in an attempt to create hype? but Loved the concept absolutely. Anyone who feels the urgent duty to get involved in social activity to help shape the world and make it safer, better or to expose their art deserve incentives.

                You need money because you want to write.
                You dont write because you want money.

                Also, How can one give an honest opinion about an article when they hope to get rich replying to them.
                It was a revealing social experiment though.

                could you use crowd voting to discredit fake social media? and like put an appeal button for discredited users that carry further credit penalties for "crying wolf" ie if you press the appeal button a moderator comes in to judge the situation because false positives exist and we need to prevent support request spam.

                Do you also have AI to detect these? or maybe just regular text processing algorithms, keywords,sequences , correlations..

                Man this is an interesting application field.

                  I've got trade view's chat widget on my site, can I also interface /extend my product with Isaac for my socializing needs?

                  Dear @LukeSkywalker ,

                  thank you for your request and we most certainly would love for you to utilize the Isaac API and utilities. Could you maybe clarify your goals and needs to see how we could help?

                  kind regards,

                  Gert

                    How does one be incentived to actually provide truth, rather than just going through the motions to receive a reward?

                    Also, where do these rewards come from? Is it a community funded pool?

                    @TidesNetwork Good question. For an individual evaluation, it is not possible to tell whether a user has provided an honest review. But we have developed methods for detecting abuse by considering how different a single user's reviews are from the consensus and also looking to see whether a user is biased towards or against a certain type of content. Dishonest users can have their payout docked by some penalty factor or may be banned from receiving rewards outright. The reviews collected during the beta period will help us to refine these abuse detection methods and develop new approaches.

                    A fixed number of ISAAC tokens were pre-generated and from this a daily pool is allocated for payouts of rewards.
                    The white paper goes into detail about the definition of the pool and the payout algorithm/limits. During the beta stage, this is all running on the Stellar test network.

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                      isaac users could have diminishing returns when they are flag. Using AI to analyze the relationship between commenters and writers in order to associate them into groups who stick together and mutually 'like' each others post. They will have high hit rates to a same person.

                      I will read the whitepaper and get back to you.

                      berlinguyinca I need to tap in to the cryptomarket user base.

                      If I integrated ISAAC users could blog about my project and fund litterature.
                      I would get visibility from users on ISAAC.

                            Sounds like a plan, I'd love to join your slack. Sending you a mail about it.

                            4 months later

                            Dear all,

                            it's been a couple of months like the last build challenge and we have been busy at work here. There is not really much to see on the frontend of things. But exciting things are happening on the backend.

                            1. we are nearly done with the switch to the live network, so people can start earning and spending Isaac
                            2. we are reworking the backend to increase speed transaction times and response times by several magnitudes.
                            3. we are working on integrating Isaac into the upcoming FreqShow online strategy review tool
                            4. Isaac will be integrated into some third-party applications from the eve-online universe. But we are not at liberty to disclose more yet.

                            We also added another person to the team and talking with Investors for getting independent funding!

                            all the best,

                            the Isaac Team

                            a year later