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# Bayesian Standing
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**Standing** (REQ-006) is a Holder's measured history on the mesh — the
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anti-gaming metric that gates [Freeholder](index.md) participation and weighs
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[Voice](councils-voice.md) in the [Councils](councils-voice.md). Standing is
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not a count of transactions and not a reputation score you can farm. It is a
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Bayesian score that resists the obvious attacks: volume spam, self-dealing,
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fake vouches.
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## The formula, at conceptual depth
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Standing combines four signals and a penalty:
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- **Bayesian prior + updates.** The mesh starts with a prior for each Holder
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and updates it from each observed action. A burst of activity cannot
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inflate Standing because the prior anchors it.
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- **Time-decay.** Old evidence decays, so a Holder cannot rest on a burst
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from years ago. Standing reflects *recent, sustained* real production.
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- **Diversity weighting.** A Holder who acts across many services, many
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[Stands](stands-guilds.md), and many [bearers](../nomads/bearers.md) accrues
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more Standing than one who repeats the same action with the same
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counterparty. Diversity is the anti-collusion lever.
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- **Voucher-weighting.** A vouch from a high-Standing Freeholder counts for
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more than a vouch from a low-Standing one. This makes fake vouches expensive:
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the voucher must themselves have Standing to lose.
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- **Minus slashes.** Bad behavior (failed attestations, broken Pacts) removes
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Standing. Slashes are the penalty that bounds the upside of gaming.
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> The full sub-tables (priors, decay rates, diversity categories, slash
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> conditions) are deferred per PROJECT.md Q2. This page gives the conceptual
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> depth; the [nomads Standing page](../nomads/standing.md) gives the plain-
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> language version.
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## Why it cannot be gamed
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There is no single input a Holder can pump. Volume is bounded by the Bayesian
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prior; recency is bounded by time-decay; breadth is bounded by diversity;
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social trust is bounded by voucher-weighting; and any attempt that misfires
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costs Standing via slashes. The four signals (the [90-day Stash](signals.md),
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3-category threshold, Capital, Vouch) sit on top of this metric, so the
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Freeholder gate inherits the same anti-gaming property.
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## What Standing is not
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Standing is not a custodial position, a tier you buy, or legacy history. It
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is a measured, decayed, diversified Bayesian score. See
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[Storage Pools](../shared/storage-pools.md) for why the mesh says "Stash"
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rather than the legacy custodial words, and [Councils & Voice](councils-voice.md)
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for how Standing weights a Freeholder's vote. |