Yo, suddenly my trust score had a little boost. Check your scores for @npub1dsn6...2h64 tasks, still not clear how it is measured, but let's hope it does get explained soon.
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I hope so, I don't know how it works
Probably since npubs with higher score are following you
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So, Vertex uses pagerank which is a probability, which implies it's a number between 0 and 1. Pagerank is distributed as a power law, which means that between an average pagerank and a high pagerank there are 4 or more order of magnitude difference.
Jack dorsey has 1000-10000x the pagerank of a normal person. Power laws are hard to comprehend for the human mind, which is why Profilestr tried different formulas to normalize this score to be between 0 to 100, in ways that make sense.
These formulas were not great, so I suggested they use something like this. It's poorly written but I don't have much time to work out the details.
TLDR; Vertex didn't change anything, the ranks are computed as before, they are simply presented differently to the end users.
This whole conversation is making me more adamant in my belief that ranks should not be displayed to end users.
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It's hard to understand indeed. People were asking this because Trust Score some weeks ago was high for almost all users and suddenly it dropped hard, I even read that some people had 0, which raised alarms and people wanted an explanation. I didn't understand the maths, but I appreciate the transparency in this matter.
These kinds of scores create wrong incentives, it reminds me of how it was done with a service called Klout in the early web 2.0 days. People will do strange things to get better scores, but it’s pointless as every score should be contextual. It should be clear that these scores have nothing to do with reach either (as many assume it is).
I couldn't reserve a name because there was no button to do so
Scam jaja
I searched against pippellia and that name is already 'occupied' i.e. connected with your npub.
yeah but I want to reserve pip but couldn't figure it out
Scammers
No need to reserve, just set your metadata... Added a faq to explain 
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NymRank - How to Optimize Your Profile
Learn how to optimize your Nostr profile to occupy a name. Understand name affinity, NIP-05, LUD-16, and Web of Trust reputation.
I read it and I am more confused.
My name, display name and nip05 all start with "pip", so I should reach 2 points. My WoT is definitely higher then the other Pip, yet he has the name
your kind 0 metadata shows as this, and I just re-ran it against your listed relays
"profile": {
"name": "pippellia",
"nip05": null,
"lud16": "whitebat1",
partial match only applies to the name field, and demarcated by spaces... we wouldn't want "pip" to also occupy "pi" for example... but would want someones first name to hit if they used name as First Last
Partial matches do not count in the lud16/nip05's prefixes since those wouldn't have spaces... but neither your nip05 or lud16 are populated with "pip"
Since your name field is "pippellia" that's what you occupy
I had an issue with my profile being nuked. I've now restored it.
I had pip@vertexlab.io and Pip in the displayName. Do you use the displayName or just the name?
anyway, I've now updated my profile. How long before it shows up?
it just uses the `name`
I see the new metadata, you're now the proud occupant "pip" 🎉
yeee
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