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.

Now the Respect Game it transforms Respect into a tangible token that encapsulates the recognition that individuals earn within their community, thereby revolutionizing traditional notions of value and collaboration

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What is Respect?

In general terms, Respect is an opinion that means to value someone or something. In this context, Respect is also a unique, non-transferable token that represents the value and recognition a community has for a particular account.

The fundamental goal of Respect is to acknowledge the contributions and impact individuals make within a community. The token serves multiple functions, including acting as a decentralized reputation system, fostering collaboration, facilitating collective decision-making, and rewarding creators who contribute to public goods. Ultimately, Respect aims to democratically distribute recognition and decision-making power in communities, promoting positive contribution and participation.

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.

As communities implement Respect, members gain new ways to influence decisions, coordinate activities, and grow together. Builders continue developing exciting new features and applications that expand what's possible with Respect, empowering individuals and organizations alike to achieve their goals.

The applications of Respect continue to expand as communities discover innovative ways to harness this versatile primitive. Dive deeper into how Respect works, then explore its myriad benefits by examining a real-world implementation at Optimism Fractal below!

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Players can earn varying amounts of Respect depending on how much they help Optimism and join each week to ear.

Each contributor to a cause

Optimism Fractal is a community dedicated to fostering collaboration and awarding public good creators on Optimism., we respect the contributions and impact to the Optimism Collective. To help the collective better understand impact of public goods creators, we created a token called Respect that community members can earn by Respect by playing the Respect Game in weekly events. Players can earn varying amounts of Respect depending on how much they help the community. You can see the rules of how the Respect Game is played at Optimism Fractal here and join the weekly events to earn Respect.

we can usher in the next step in the evolution of collaboration to create a world of abundance.

At Optimism Fractal, Respect is a non-transferrable token that players can earn by playing the Respect Game to foster contributions to Optimism. It serves as a powerful primitive for decentralized reputation, governance, and impact evaluation systems within communities. It’s a profoundly helpful way to acknowledge each community member’s contributions, foster collaboration, and facilitate collective decision-making. This token can award public goods creators and enable truly democratic governance with an equitable distribution of decision-making power for all communities and organizations.

The Roots of Respect

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Composable Respect

For more about the composable benefits of Respect, you can also review the summary below. Respect earned in Optimism Fractal is highly composable with other projects on Optimism in the following ways:

• All Respect token data is open and onchain for easy integration
• Our reputation and contribution data could help inform public goods funding through composability with tools like RetroPGF
• Unique identity verification collaborations with services like the Attestation Station improves integrity
• New games and apps could be built on top of our core coordination primitives
• Shared incentive systems could align wider Optimism communities
• Relationships formed could enable collaborative opportunities across projects
• The concept of respect points earned in social consensus games provides a powerful primitive for novel coordination mechanisms

We aim for modular interoperable design that makes it easy to build on top of our cooperation stack and share data/incentives across Optimism.

Earn Respect

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.

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Thanks for reading and learning about Respect. We invite you to join Optimism Fractal weekly weekly events to earn Respect and experience it for yourself.

Blog Post: Title: "Respect: A New Token of Recognition and Collaboration"

In today’s digital age, fostering meaningful interaction and collaboration within online communities can be challenging. To address this, Optimism Fractal has introduced Respect, a non-transferable token that signifies the esteem a community holds for its members. Earned through participation in the Respect Game, this innovative token brings a new dimension to community interaction and contribution.

The Respect Game is a consensus-building activity, conducted in weekly meetings. Participants present their contributions, with the community then reaching a consensus on the value of these contributions. This system not only encourages active participation but also acknowledges the value of each member's contributions.

A standout feature of Respect is its function as a decentralized reputation system. On the OP Mainnet, Respect tokens serve as an immutable record of an individual's contributions and impact. This provides a transparent and democratically regulated method for recognizing and rewarding community efforts.

Respect encourages collaboration and networking within the community. By earning Respect points, individuals can gain higher rankings and recognition, fostering a supportive environment where members are incentivized to contribute positively.

One of the significant advantages of Respect is its flexibility. The token can be integrated with various decentralized applications and tools, allowing for broad applications. This includes reward systems, decision-making processes, and the verification of contributions.

Respect aligns with the ethos of supporting creators who contribute to public goods and the broader ecosystem. The allocation of Respect points is designed to be democratic and credibly neutral. This democratic process promotes fairness and ensures that distributions are based on genuine contributions.

Respect also contributes to effective collective decision-making. The tokens can be used to elect community leaders, providing a structured way for the community to govern itself. This token system thus fosters a sense of shared responsibility and communal governance.

In summary, Respect is more than just a token; it's a way to promote collaboration, contribution to public goods, and a democratic process of recognition and decision-making. It's an innovative approach to fostering a strong community ethos and encouraging positive contributions. With Respect, we can build stronger online communities, where every member's input is valued and rewarded.

Respect Game Rules

These are the rules of the Respect Game played at Optimism Fractal. For more detailed rules, see here. The Respect Game provides a vast design space of different variations and these rules can be customized to fit the unique needs of any community or organization.

1. Participants gather in randomized groups of three to six players. If there are many participants, they split into multiple groups. The Respect Game can accommodate any amount of players due to it’s fractal nature.
2. Each participant of the group is given up to 4 minutes to introduce themselves, present their contributions, and share what they've done recently to help the community. This could include creating content, building software, inviting friends, or any other helpful activities.

3. After everyone has shared their contributions, the group discusses and ranks each other’s work in order of helpfulness. The players try to rank who did the most to help the community in the past week, then who helped the second most, the third most, and so forth. In order to win, the players must reach consensus by at least 2/3rds of the group agreeing to the ranks.

4. Once the group reaches consensus the participants of the group signal it onchain, which calls a function of smart contract. Everyone in the group earns Respect if at least 2/3rds of the break-out group participants submit this result onchain by calling smart contract during the game.

5. Based on these rankings, Respect is distributed to each participant. The better your contribution is ranked, the more respect you earn. In the current configuration, 55 Respect is given to the first place, 34 Respect to second place, 21 Respect to third place, 13 Respect to fourth place, 8 Respect to fifth place, and 5 Respect is given to sixth place in each breakout room where consensus is formed.
6. The game repeats with regular meetings where members share their latest contributions and receive more respect over time.Respect is not transferable, meaning you keep them as a personal token of your contributions and they build up for each person over time.

Respect a soulbound token called Respect that any community can use to voice community opinion

You can respect the work that people do.

. The Respect token is an elegant, composable, and highly useful primitive that can enhance the functionality of many other smart contracts on Optimism.

All communities are faced with decisions about how to allocate resources and decision making power to maximize mutual benefit. Our social games in live meetings provides an optimal solution to distribute community resources in a simple, credibly neutral, and fun way. You can see how players earn respect in weekly meetings at OptimismFractal.com and in the resources below.

The Respect Game or Fractalgram app is provided to make this fun and easy.

The Benefits of Respect

Here are some benefits of the Respect Game:

1. Respect Scores: Respect tokens serve as an immutable reputation score on a public network like the Optimism Superchain. This provides a decentralized and transparent, credibly neutral composable record of an individual's contributions and impact within the community.

2. Collaboration and Networking: The system encourages collaboration and networking in fun weekly meetings. By participating and contributing to the community, individuals earn respect points, which can lead to higher rankings and recognition. This process fosters a supportive and exciting environment where members are incentivized to contribute positively.

3. Composability: The respect system is highly composable, meaning it can be integrated with various decentralized applications and tools. This flexibility allows for broad applications, including reward systems, decision-making processes, and verification of contributions.

4. Awarding Public Goods Creators: The respect points are particularly focused on rewarding those who contribute to public goods and the broader ecosystem. This aligns with the mission of fostering collaboration and supporting creators who contribute to open-source projects or other community-benefiting initiatives.

5. Democratic and Credibly Neutral Process: The allocation of respect points is designed to be democratic and credibly neutral. Participants are placed in random breakout rooms and measurements are taken by peers on a weekly basis to insure that the distribution of points is fair and based on genuine contributions.

6. Collective Decision-Making: Respect tokens can be used to elect leaders of the community. Respect can give power in collective decisions and providing a structured way for the community to govern itself. The smart contracts can be operated by community members with the most Respect.

7. Fractal Democracy: The concept of fractal democracy is used where decision-making is decentralized into smaller groups like branches of a tree. This allows for more efficient and representative decision-making processes.

8. Encouraging Participation and Positive Contribution: Simply joining and participating in the community in a positive manner can earn respect points, encouraging a broad range of contributions and engagement levels.

The Respect Game is designed to promote collaboration, contribution to public goods, and a democratic process of recognition and decision-making, all underpinned by a strong community ethos.

From the fractally whitepaper - there is also more here that i didn’t yet copy and paste. Some is applicable and some isn’t so applicable anymore so it will take some time to curate it

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Respect means to value someone or something. You can respect the property of others. You can respect the work other people do. Even if you don’t respect the character qualities of a person, you can still respect what they produce.

Consider the act of serving the poor in a soup kitchen. This act is generally respected. The person who volunteers is generally respected for their service. However, if the server is paid to feed the poor, then the respect is typically accrued to the donor who paid the server rather than the individual providing the service.

We value people. We respect their talents, their character, and their honesty. We respect them just for being alive, and we respect their potential. This is non-transferable respect. A person can eat healthy, train, and pursue personal growth. This may increase the amount of non-transferrable respect one person has for another. A person can also lie, cheat, and steal and lose non-transferrable respect. This kind of respect can also be viewed as reputation. More accurately, we value (aka respect) someone because of their reputation.

That said, money can be viewed as a measure of respect someone has earned for past contributions to a community. We value money because others value money. Money is therefore respected. When money transfers hands, one person loses this measure of community respect and another person gains it. When you sell a product that someone in the community values, you earn respect. Note that all “property”, of any form, is a measure of respect. Theft of “property” is a form of disrespect. Property and “ownership” are simply ideas that express a peace treaty among cooperative beings to end the war of all against all under the law of the jungle where might makes right. Respecting the idea of property is therefore respecting others.

• I think. the following section about money prob shouldn’t be included here

Community Respect

ƒractally empowers a community to reach a consensus on the merits of each individual’s contributions and rewards them with the Respect they are due. In this case, Respect is synonymous with community money or currency.

Most countries have their own money and regardless of what name they give to their money, it is still money. BTC and ETH are the “Respect” of their respective communities. Each ƒractally community, which we call a ƒractal, will have its own form of Respect.

How we characterize Respect and community money has huge legal implications. Is Respect a contract, an obligation, a commodity, or an opinion? Is it the property of a person or the opinion of other people? Is it something you “own” or is it something bestowed upon you? Do you receive “income” or “loss” when someone’s opinion about you changes or only when tangible things change hands? Can someone be forced to hold a particular opinion? Most people think of money as a thing that belongs to a person. For example, Ludwig von Mises defined money as the most marketable commodity

However, in ƒractally, Respectisn’t a thing; it’s an opinion. While you may respect (value) something, others may have a complete lack of respect for it. If Respect is a measure of community consensus on the relative value of individual contributions then Respect remains a consensus opinion of the community, not the property of an individual.

Free market prices are one means of discovering the relative Respect (value) for various goods and services. For example, you may own a stock that has a certain value (measured in Respect or money); however, other people can reach a new consensus that the stock is worthless. This change in community opinion does not constitute “theft”, and the value of the stock isn’t the “property” of the owner of the stock.

Some people might say that while the value of the stock isn’t property, the stock itself is still property. However, stock ownership, like all property, is a matter of consensus opinion. Did you acquire the stock fairly? Did you honor all of your agreements with respect to the stock? Who gets to decide these things? Is it not just a consensus opinion? In this case, the consensus is that the government, as elected, gets to decide. In other words, all titles to all things are in fact a consensus opinion. If the consensus opinion changed, you would find it difficult to retain control of your things.

The Value of an Opinion

If Respect is just an opinion, does it have any value? Opinions can be valuable or they can be worthless depending upon the source. You likely value the opinion of your husband or wife far more than the opinion of a random drug addict. Expert opinions are often more valuable than the opinion of laymen. Likewise, the value of a community's collective opinion depends upon the reputation of a community and its ability to reach a respectable consensus. Therefore, a community's reputation is also a ƒunction of the reputation of the members of the community.

Predictability of outcome is a major component of building trust and therefore building the value of Respect. A country that respects “property rights”, has honest courts, and allocates government funds reliably, with minimal corruption and graft, will prosper. Thus, people will respect the opinion of its courts, they will follow its laws, and the people will prosper. Alternatively, a country that falls to corruption and spends the country into bankruptcy, loses the respect of people at home and abroad. The end result is currency devaluation and lawlessness. Hyperinflation is ultimately the result of a complete loss of respect for a currency.

Earning Respect

There are hundreds of communities out there that need people to contribute their time and attention for the greater good. Whether you want to organize a political party, start a mutual aid society, share the gospel, or clean up the ocean, ƒractally empowers autonomous communities to reach a consensus on how to give the Respect due to everyone’s contributions.

Respect is initially allocated proportional to community growth. Assuming a fixed size community, the inflation model is a fixed amount of Respect per week or 6% annually whichever is greater. The relative quantity of earned Respect will scale to maintain the fixed annual supply increase of 6%. This mandatory minimum recognizes that present contributions are necessary to maintain community growth and that the value of historic contributions will decay with time. Different ƒractals may have different policies and they should all remember the principle that present contributions are more valuable than historic contributions.

1. Attend Meetings ƒractally rewards those who are proactive in doing things for the community. This effort is then recognized and accounted for after the fact. Is there something you think you can contribute to a community? Go for it and you can start earning the Respect you deserve. Once you join a community that shares your values, you can immediately start earning the Respect of your community by simply attending a 1-hour video conference and reaching a consensus with five other randomly selected community members. Whether you are a developer, marketer, blogger, YouTuber, event organizer, graphic designer, networker, lawyer, CEO, doctor, priest, or farmer, there is a place for you to contribute to a ƒractally community. The more a community values your contributions, the more Respect you earn. Your opinion matters. Every week you get to share your opinion with 5 random members and get a say over how the community collectively respects their contributions. Over time everyone in the community gets to hear what you respect. Everyone has an incentive to negotiate with you in weekly meetings because 4 out of 6 people agree or no one earns

3 Autonomous - self-directing, self-governing, self-sovereign; not subject to outside governance.

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Respect. There is no other system where your voice has so much influence over how the community allocates its Respect.