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# Standing
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**Standing** (REQ-006) is a Holder's measured history on the mesh. It is
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the anti-gaming metric: a Bayesian score with time-decay, diversity
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weighting, and voucher-weighting, minus slashes for bad behavior. For a
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Nomad, the headline is that the mesh **cannot be gamed** — Standing
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rewards real production and resists the obvious attacks (volume spam,
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self-dealing, fake vouches).
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## What Standing is, in plain language
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Standing is not a count of transactions. It is a Bayesian score: the mesh
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starts with a prior, updates it from each observed action, and decays
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old evidence so a Holder cannot rest on a burst of activity from years
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ago. Diversity weighting means a Nomad who acts across many services,
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many Stands, and many bearers accrues more Standing than a Nomad who
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repeats the same action with the same counterparty. Voucher-weighting
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means a vouch from a Holder with high Standing counts for more.
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## Why it matters to a Nomad
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A Nomad mostly reads Standing, not computes it. Two places it shows up:
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- **Choosing a service.** Maps shows a service operator's Standing so a
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Nomad can pick an operator with a real history over a freshly-spun-up
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alternative (see [Maps & Pay](maps-pay.md)).
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- **The Freeholder path.** Earning a Standing threshold in 3 categories
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is one of the four Freeholder signals (REQ-005). A Nomad who accrues
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Standing over time is on the path to becoming a Freeholder.
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## What Standing is not
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Standing is not a custodial position, a tier you buy, or a reputation
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score you can farm. It is not legacy custodial history. The
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Bayesian + time-decay + diversity design is exactly what makes it hard to
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game: there is no single input a Holder can pump.
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## The math, deferred
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The full Bayesian formula (priors, decay rates, diversity sub-tables,
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slash conditions) is documented in the Freeholders section — a Nomad does
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not need the math to use the mesh. See
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[Six Principles](../shared/six-principles.md) for the covenant Standing
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enforces, and [Reach](reach.md) for the identity a Standing accrues to. |