Welcome
The Respect Game is a profoundly helpful consensus game that provides a fun way to foster collaborations, promote public goods creators, and fairly award positive impact!
This innovative consensus game coordinates decentralized, autonomous organizations with democratic decision-making and a sybil resistant reputation system rooted in onchain attestations during joyful events. It also provides invaluable primitives with a soulbound Respect token that enables communities to cooperate to achieve shared goals far better than ever before.
a profoundly helpful consensus game that provides a fun way to foster collaborations, promote public goods creators, and fairly award positive impact. The Respect Game enables decentralized organizations to thrive with fractal democracy, autonomous coordination, and a sybil resistant reputation system rooted in onchain attestations during joyful events.
The Respect Game is at the heart of Optimism Fractal and our work at Optimystics. As you can see in our blog, we’ve been pioneering this innovative consensus game for three years with hundreds of talented builders and we created Optimism Fractal to grow Optimism with the Respect Game. The Respect Game is nearly ready to greatly empower all of humanity and we hope you’ll play with us to create a better future for all.
You can join our events, watch our videos, and read below to learn why this simple game will provide such immense benefits for everyone in the world. Enjoy! 🌞
The Respect Game is a simple, elegant, and profoundly helpful game that anyone can play to grow their community!
The Respect Game provides a fun new way to foster collaborations, raise awareness for public goods creators, and help communities fairly reward impact.
Table of Contents
- Welcome
- Intro to the Respect Game
- Benefits of the Respect Game
- What is Respect?
- Respect Game Apps
- Respect Game Events
- Watch the Respect Game
- Get Involved
- Related Posts
Intro to the Respect Game
What is the Respect Game? The Optimystics provide an overview of the Respect Game rules and show you how to play! 🌻
Here’s an overview of how to play:
- Forming Groups: 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.
- Sharing Contributions: Each person in the group gets a chance to share what they've done recently to help the community. Each participant can take up to 4 minutes to do this. This could be anything from creating content, building software, inviting friends, or other helpful activities for the Optimism Collective.
- Ranking and Consensus: 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.
- Awarding Respect: Based on these rankings, Respect is distributed to each participant. The better your contribution is ranked, the more respect you earn. Respect is not transferable, meaning you keep them as a personal token of your contributions and they build up for each person over time. You can learn more about Respect in this article.
- Optimistic Technology: You can play the Respect Game without using special tools, but the game is better when using a blockchain. At Optimism Fractal, the results of these rankings and the distribution of respect points are recorded on the OP Mainnet. This ensures transparency and allows everyone to see the contributions and respect of each member.
- Ongoing Participation: The game repeats with regular meetings where members share their latest contributions and receive more respect over time for continually growing Optimism.
In the current configuration at Optimism Fractal, participants earn about 60% more Respect for each higher level that they earn. 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.
In this way, the respect game encourages community participation and recognizes each member's contributions in a fair and transparent way.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits of the Respect Game
Here are some benefits of the Respect Game:
- Respect Scores: Respect tokens serve as an immutable reputation score on the OP Mainnet. This provides a decentralized and transparent, credibly neutral composable record of an individual's contributions and impact within the community.
- 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.
- Composability on Optimism: 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
What is Respect?
Respect is an opinion that means to value someone or something. You can respect the work other people do. At Optimism Fractal, we respect their contributions and impact to the Optimism Collective.
To help the Optimism Collective better understand impact of public goods creators, we created software that enables communities to give Respect to award community members at fun events. Respect is a soulbound token that any community can use to express a community opinion. The Respect token is an elegant and composable primitive that can enhance the functionality of many other smart contracts on Optimism. You can learn more about the benefits and utility of Respect in this article.
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- Research-Backed Principles: The system is based on extensive research into human coordination and cooperation, suggesting that its foundations are grounded in well-established theories and practices.
- Building a Sustainable Open Internet: The respect game align with the goal of building a sustainable, open internet, promoting a culture of cooperation and mutual support.
Respect Game Apps
How do we use the OP Mainnet to play the Respect Game? We demonstrate Fractalgram, an intuitive app that helps communities reach consensus while having fun!
We build open-source tools for anyone to empower their community with consensus games on the OP Stack. You can learn more about the open source apps and tools that we use to play the Respect Game at Optimystics.io/tools. Developers can explore the articles and code repositories to learn how to build exciting new applications with the Respect Game.
Respect Game Events
You can play the Respect Game at Optimism Fractal on Thursdays at 17 UTC. Optimism Fractal is dedicated to fostering collaboration and awarding public goods creators on Optimism. You can register for weekly email reminders at event page and find details at OptimismFractal.com. Optimism Fractal provides a perfect place to collaborate with talented optimists and earn awards for helping the Optimism Collective.
You can explore other communities that are playing the Respect Game on our events and communities pages. In addition to these events, our tools are all open source so anyone can play the Respect Game at their events. We’re happy to help you get started, so feel free to reach out with any questions or comments!
There are two weekly events we host where you can play the Respect Game.
You can play the Respect Game at Eden Fractal on Wednesdays at 16 UTC. Eden Fractal is dedicated to growing fractal communities and promoting the adoption of the Respect Game. You can register for weekly email reminders at event page and find details at EdenFractal.com. Eden Fractal provides the perfect place to collaborate with fractal enthusiasts and earn awards for helping people enjoy the Respect Game.
Watch the Respect Game
You can watch the Respect Game on our videos page and youtube channel. We publish videos of each weekly event featuring the Respect Game at both Optimism Fractal and Eden Fractal. In addition you can also explore hundreds of videos of Respect Gameplay on the Eden Creators youtube channel and OptimismFractal.com/media.
Next Steps
Future Plans
Create short clips of each presentation to promote everyone’s project with short videos. This will provide a service where everyone can get high quality videos of their pitches and create short form educational video content to inspire the world with Optimism
Integrations with social networks like farcaster and other composable primitives of Respect. For example, Charmverse permissions based on respect and Farcaster post amplification, algorithm design, and rewards for posting based on respect.
Related Posts
RetroPitches
Intro to the Optimism Collective
Welcome to Optimism Fractal!
The Roots of Optimism Fractal
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Enhancing RetroPGF with the Respect Game
RetroPGF is a groundbreaking mechanism to reward public goods creators and grow communities, but it has a key problem that the Respect Game can solve. You can explore this article to learn how Optimism Fractal can relieve burden from badgeholders, raise awareness public goods creators, and help the citizens fairly reward impact in the Optimism Collective.
Get Involved
Thanks for reading and learning about the Respect Game. We invite you to join our weekly events, watch previous episodes of Optimism Fractal, and explore our blog to learn more about how the Respect Game can create profound benefits for the Optimism Collective. Feel free to reach out with any questions or comments on our Discord.
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