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[What] This month, Season 1 of Rarity Farming will commence. Undoubtable, there will be a lot of ties in all three categories. The aim of this proposal is to change the tie breaker sorting criterion for the Kinship category to “time until next interaction” (with lower times ranking higher, of course).

[Why] The Kinship ranking has a lot of ties, because people have been petting their Gotchis diligently. However, everyone’s 12h petting cycle is a little different. The exact time of the reward snapshots could easily lower your rank 10 to 50 places, if it ends up being a few minutes before your next interaction would raise your Kinship score. This would lead to drama and upset frens, similar to what we’ve seen after Haunt 1.

[Arguments PRO] Pro 1: The current tie breaker (Experience) has by far the most ties and is therefore not suited to be a tie breaker. There would still be a lot of ties left unbroken.

Pro 2: ‘Time until next interaction’ is (unlike any other criterion) directly tied to the Kinship score and therefore a much more fair tie breaker for the Kinship category.

Pro 3: Based on the time resolution (seconds or even milliseconds) ‘time until next interaction’ leaves virtually no ties left unbroken.

Pro 4: The current tie breaker (Experience) has its own reward category. “Cross contamination” between reward pools would make each pool less unique. Reward categories are there to reward different aspects.

[Arguments CON] Con 1: It was already announced that Experience is going to be the tie breaker.

Con 2: Kinship is the tie breaker in the BRS category. Therefore it is only fair, if one of the other categories is the tie breaker in the Kinship category.

[Counter arguments for CON] Counter for Con 1: Tie-breakers should have been determined by a core proposal all along. Hence, changing the tie-breaker, even after the announcement, would make for good press (e.g. Active DAO decides to make reward pool of ~ 300,000 USD more fair for active users).

Counter for Con 2: This proposal is ONLY for the Kinship category. Other categories are a different topic. But if we must discuss this here: Two wrongs don’t make a right. BRS could easily tie-broken in more suitable ways. E.g. relative rarity - i.e. rank items uniquely by how many Gotchis are wearing them, and rank high/low traits by how many Gotchis have those traits high or low. Those are just two of many things that would be a better fit for the BRS category.

[Alternatives] 1: Spread the snapshot timestamps for the 4 reward rounds 3h apart. E.g. round 1 at 1pm, round 2 (two weeks later) at 4pm, round 3 (two weeks later) at 7pm, and round 4 (two weeks later) at 10pm. This would mitigate the 12h issue to a much less effective degree, but it would still be better than nothing.

2: In addition, ‘Time until next interaction’ could be used as a second tie-breaker, for all the ties that are still unbroken after the Experience tie-breaker has been applied.

[Disclaimer] Author: CryptoGotchi GotchiID: 8612

[Discourse] The proposal has had overwhelming support in the DAO discussion. Feel free to join in: https://dao.aavegotchi.com/t/kinship-ranking-sorting-criteria/1352