At some point, we considered creating a STEMsocial token for the reasons you mentioned (by the way, note that STEMgeeks and STEMsocial are two different things, and that we have nothing to do with the STEM token; for anything related to the latter, you should reach out @themarkymark).
However, we, at STEMsocial, decided no to create our token. The main question is: what would be the value of such a token? Or equivalently, what should we do to give such a token value? I have no answer to that question and I know marky is fighting hard to prevent STEM value to melt.
At some point, I was more in favour of creating badges , as well as having our dedicated frontend through which we could filter what is visible by default, across tags, without having to censor anything (so that we could show up a nice view to the external world). I still really want to deal with this, but unfortunately, finding a developer, dedicating time, etc., are all not trivial. I tried to do it by myself, but I am definitely too busy to handle that.
Anyway, thanks for bringing up the discussion. Too bad no one seems to react (I am currently super over busy due to an approaching grant proposal deadline).
Cheers!
Even though I have been inside Hive for a short time now, and I have been studying it before entering, I was confused and thought that the STEM family was united, your words explain many things to me.
A token representing prestige should not be transferable or exchanged, only earned. In this sense, badges may be the way to go. It would be necessary to create measurable parameters of the scientific impact of the publications and the accumulated merit of the authors and that this is related to the % of votes in new cures or of a trail.
I'm going to study the issue of badges inside Hive more in-depth.
In the same way, we could calmly create the specific Front-End, it will be my entertainment when time allows me.
Thanks a lot for commenting.
Cheers!