Forum Score

What is Forum Score

Forum Score is designed to provide a quantifiable measure of a delegate’s activity and engagement in DAO governance discussions. It captures off-chain contributions, such as forum discussions and comments, ensuring that constructive participation is recognized. By aggregating diverse metrics, it offers a more comprehensive evaluation of delegate engagement and contributions.

Why Did We Build It?

Governance is more than just voting; it is shaped by discussions, proposals, and deliberations. However, off-chain interactions often go unnoticed. Forum Score surfaces this data, offering DAOs a more complete assessment of delegate participation beyond voting records. By recognizing diverse forms of engagement, it enhances transparency and provides a clearer picture of each delegate’s contribution on governance.

How is Forum Score Calculated?

Forum Score aggregates several key metrics from governance activities. The calculation involves three main components, with all data points first converted into percentile scores for fair comparison across users.

Eligibility Requirement: To be included in Forum Score calculations, a user must meet at least Trust Level 1 on the forum.

A. Proposal Score

This score measures the contributions of a user in creating and discussing proposals for the DAO in the forum.

Metrics Included:

• Proposal Initiations: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of proposals a user has created.

• Proposal Discussions: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of posts a user has created under a proposal thread.

• Proposal Likes Received: This metric measures the percentile of the average amount of likes a user received from their proposals and posts within a proposal thread.

Note: For this component, we only selected posts in the following proposal-related categories:

• #7 Proposal

• #9 Finalized AIPs

These category IDs were chosen because they best represent proposal activities within the forum.

Formula Component:

Proposal Score = (Prop_Initiated * 0.5) + (Prop_Discussed * 0.3) + (Prop_Like_Rec * 0.1)

B. Engagement Score

This score measures the contributions of a user to the overall forum.

Metrics Included:

• User Topic Count: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of topics a user has created.

• User Post Count: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of posts a user has created

• User Likes Received: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of likes a user received from all their posts and topics.

Formula Component:

Engagement Score = (User_Topic_Int * 0.7) + (User_Post_Count * 0.4) + (User_Like_Rec * 0.2)

C. Activeness Score

This score measures how active a user is in keeping up with the forum.

Metrics Included:

• User Days Visited: This metric measures the percentile of the number of days a user has visited the forum.

• User Time Read: This metric measures the percentile of the amount of time a user has spent reading a topic or post.

Formula Component:

Activeness Score = (User Day Visited * 0.07) + (User Time Read * 0.06)

D. Normalization and Final Calculation

Normalization Factors

All data points are first converted into percentile scores, ensuring fair comparisons across users. These percentile values are then weighted according to their importance.

• Max Score

• Sum of Weights × Max Score

Overall Formula:

Forum Score = ((Max_Score * 1) + (Proposal Score * 1) + (Engagement Score * 0.5) + (Activeness Score * 0.5)) / (Sum of Weights * Max_Score)