ohhhhkay, I see what’s going on here.
Now it makes more sense. There’s clearly some sort of bias for certain projects on this website. I was wondering how dacplay could be rated 4 stars while Nu is rated 3. It doesn’t appear that they’ve actually delivered anything other than a successful crowdfund. While Nu has been around for almost a year successfully delivering on the stated goals, and even having sent out dividends!
So I scroll down to find out more about dacplay, because I’ve never heard of it before. Oh it’s a bitshares fork… says it’s “powered by bitshares”… and is registered to the same address as the bitshares office.
I mean that’s odd to see something which hasn’t delivered anything rated above many other long term crypto-projects - not just Nu.
Even all the bitassets are rated 3 stars. If you go to the bitUSD page on their own site its calculated price is $1.09 (at the time of writing). Hell, (at the time of writing) bitUSD is trading for $.94 on BTER. The assets only job is to be pegged to the dollar, and it doesn’t even do that. It has struggled for a long time as well. How could it possibly be rated one star higher than Peercoin, Monero, or even CoinoUSD (which is another failed pegged asset)?
Now I had expected to see that these values were lobbied for by the bitshares community, and looked for the pull requests that entered these values. Though it looks like they were configured by one of the core contributors of the website.
Now i’m not accusing the site of intentionally trying to mislead. The only assertion i’m willing to make is stating that this website is functionally broken given that it’s sorted by default on the rating, and the ratings don’t appear to have any basis on reality.
CoinGecko.com uses an algorithm based on publicly available information to generate its scores. It can be wonky but it’s fairly clear on how those scores are generated. I don’t see any consistency here on cyber.fund.
So, i’ll simply restate my question above. How are the ratings calculated decided? Is it up to the discretion of the site admins, or is feedback taken into account? Will there be some sort of automated system implemented in the future? Am I totally off the road here, or is what i’m seeing fairly accurate?