Reputation & ranks

What reputation is

Reputation is a per-guild integer that tracks your contribution quality. It starts at zero the moment you join a guild, moves every time you participate in a finalized review, and maps to a rank tier that multiplies your reward share.

Reputation is non-transferable. You can't sell it, delegate it, or move it to another wallet. It lives attached to the wallet that earned it and that wallet only.

How it's earned

Four sources of reputation, in order of typical weight:

• Aligned votes (+10). Your revealed score lands inside 1 × IQR of consensus on a finalized review. This is the largest and most consistent source.
• Successful endorsements (+20). You staked VETD on a candidate and that candidate was hired. Endorsements are higher risk than votes, with matching reward.
• Governance participation (+5 to +10). Voting on active guild proposals. The exact amount depends on the proposal's impact tier.
• First-time bonuses (variable). Completing your first review, your first successful endorsement, and your first governance vote each trigger small one-time boosts.

How it's lost

Three sources of reputation loss:

• Misaligned votes (−20). Scoring more than 1×IQR from consensus triggers a severe deviation penalty. See the alignment tier table.
• Inactivity decay (−10 per 30 days). Going 30 days without voting or endorsing costs reputation. This prevents dormant accounts from holding rank indefinitely.
• Enforcement actions (variable). Guild-level enforcement for conflict-of-interest breaches, bad-faith reviewing, or code-of-conduct violations can dock significant reputation or remove it entirely.

Rank tiers

Reputation maps to five named guild ranks (Recruit, Apprentice, Craftsman, Officer, Master). Ranks determine guild permissions and governance eligibility.

Reward multipliers

Reward multipliers follow a three-tier system based on reputation thresholds: Foundation (0–999 rep, 1.0×), Established (1,000–1,999 rep, 1.25×), and Authority (2,000+ rep, 1.5×). The reward pool for a finalized review is divided among aligned experts in proportion to their weighted share:

your_share = (your_weight × pool) / total_aligned_weight

An Authority-tier expert earns 1.5× what a Foundation-tier expert earns for the same aligned vote. Officer and Master ranks share the same 1.5× reward multiplier as Craftsman — the value of higher ranks is in governance and moderation privileges.

Reputation is per-guild

Every guild tracks reputation independently. You can hold Master rank in Engineering and Recruit rank in Design at the same time — they're separate counters attached to the same wallet.

Leaderboards and rank badges always specify the guild context. TheGuild Ranks page (/expert/guild-ranks) in the product shows your standing per guild, your reputation delta over time, and the next rank threshold.

The reputation timeline

Every change is logged on the Reputation page (/expert/reputation). Each entry shows:

• The delta (±X rep) and the event type
• The guild and candidate (if the event was a review)
• Alignment distance and consensus score
• Rewards earned, if any
• Running cumulative reputation at that point in time

The timeline is paginated and filterable by guild, reason, and date range — useful when you want to audit your own behaviour or understand a specific rank change.