Introduction
Respect is an opinion that means you value someone or something. It’s a foundation of all social interactions and it’s been at the heart of all collaboration since the dawn of human civilization.
The Respect Game transforms the ephemeral feeling of respect into a tangible token that encapsulates and measures the recognition that individuals earn within their community. The Respect token enables people to collaborate and coordinate much more effectively than ever before. It’s a non-transferrable token that any community or organization can use by implementing the Respect Game. You can earn Respect by playing the Respect Game.
Respect serves as a powerful primitive for decentralized reputation, governance, and impact evaluation systems within communities. It’s a profoundly helpful way to award contributors to a common cause, facilitate collective decision-making, and grow communities.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is the Respect Game?
- What can you do with Respect?
- Decentralized Governance
- Collective Action
- Impact Evaluation
- Voice Opinions
- Build with Respect
- The Roots of Respect
- Earn Respect
- Related Posts
What is the Respect Game?
The Respect Game is a simple and profoundly helpful social game that anyone can play to grow their community. This consensus game is at the heart of Optimism Fractal and our work at Optimystics
Here’s a basic overview of how it works: Participants gather into randomized small groups, share what they’ve done to help accomplish a collective goal, and collaborate to reach consensus on ranking each other’s contributions. All participants who reach consensus receive Respect and you can earn more Respect by receiving higher ranks from others in your group.
Players can accumulate Respect by repeatedly helping the community and gain access to special powers over time. You can watch intro videos and learn more about the Respect Game in this article.
Optimism Fractal Respect
Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing governance on Optimism. It features weekly events based around the Respect Game where participants respect each other’s contributions and impact to the Optimism Collective. Participants at Optimism Fractal events earn a Respect token called OPF.
Respect helps the Optimism Collective better understand impact of public goods creators, foster a collaborative environment, and enable truly democratic governance with an equitable distribution of decision-making power. You can see the rules of how the Respect Game is played at Optimism Fractal here, join the weekly events to earn Respect, and learn more by exploring OptimismFractal.com.
What can you do with Respect?
Respect has served as foundational role for human civilization for thousands of years. Now, the Respect token enables profound benefits all communities and organizations and provides solutions to upgrade society as a while. Below you can find an overview of a few powerful utilities of Respect, such as decentralizing governance, coordinating collective action, and evaluating impact for retroactive public goods funding.
Decentralized Governance
Respect provides a powerful primitive to enable groups of any size make collective decisions in a fair, fast, and fun manner. The Respect token enables true democracy and a powerful governance framework for all communities and organizations. No matter what you’re trying to achieve, Respect can help you make shared decisions more effectively.
For example, community members at who have earned Respect at Optimism Fractal can join the council by signaling their intent in weekly registration polls. The top six registered community members who have earned the most Respect form a council, which can make collective decisions and express community opinions with a two thirds majority consensus. You can explore a detailed overview and of how this council works in this article.
Collective Action
Respect can be used to facilitate collective decision-making, set priorities, and allocate resources in decentralized communities with Respect Trees. This fractal framework enables community members to influence the direction of projects with Respect and empowers communities to accurately assess projects with granularity, democracy, and credibly neutrality.
Impact Evaluation
The Respect Game provides a powerful way to measure the impact of your contributions to the Superchain, which can help you earn from public goods funding sources like Retro Funding.
The Respect Game provides a peer-reviewed, democratic, and credibly neutral process for evaluating the impact of contributors and their projects. This streamlined evaluation can help decision-makers understand the value that contributors bring to their community, making it easier to efficiently allocate funding and resources. You can see how Optimism Fractal enables decentralized measurement of value in all of our videos, including OF 8: Merry Measures and OF 9: Impact Scores.
We’re now developing deeper integrations with the Optimism Collective and Retro Funding to help community members evaluate impact and earn funding with Respect. You can also find some of our work with this in our article about Enhancing RetroPGF with Optimism Fractal.
Watch OF 22: Retro Funding Optimism Fractal
How can Optimism Fractal help you earn Retro Funding? We measure each other’s impact in the Collective, then help public goods creators to profit by growing Optimism and contributing to Optimism Fractal 🧑🏽🌾 📏 🔴
Onchain Social Games
Respect enables many other exciting social games that can help coordinate communities, build culture, attract contributors, and evaluate impact. For example you can explore Cignals and RetroPitches, which are fun friendly competitions where Retro Funding applicants present their projects and participants rank their pitches.
Social games built with Respect give public goods creators a great opportunity to promote their RetroPGF grant and provide citizens with an easy way to learn about exciting projects in the Optimism Collective. Participants can vote with their Respect, which makes the game much more fair and exciting!
Voice Opinions
Anyone who has earned Respect by playing the Respect Game can make polls for the community and proposals for the council in the Optimism Fractal Snapshot Space.
Anyone who has earned Respect can also use it to signal their opinions in polls and proposals. The more Respect that you earn at weekly events, the more influence you gain to help guide Optimism Fractal.
Build with Respect
All of the software used to play the Respect Game is open source, so anyone can build with Respect. You can explore this page to learn about Respect Game software and check out these articles to learn about tools that are built with Respect.
You can find the open source repositories here, explore the notion site to get involved in related projects, and feel free to reach out with questions.
What else can you do with Respect?
Respect is a highly composable primitive and we’re building many other exciting functionalities and mystical powers for Respect, so stay tuned for much more coming soon!
The Roots of Respect
The concept of the Respect token was originally created by a pioneering team called Fractally. You can learn about Respect in their whitepaper (pages 9-18 and 22-25) and keynote video.
You can also explore the Optimystics blog and our article about the history of fractal communities to learn more about Respect.
Earn Respect
Thanks for reading and learning about Respect. We invite you to join Optimism Fractalp weekly weekly events to earn Respect and experience it for yourself. Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments on discord or Farcaster.
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