I could really use some guidance on exactly how Uptrust works. From what I can tell...........well, I'm clueless. At first I was thinking that uptrusting something made it more popular, and so it functions like a "like" works, while downtrusting something does the opposite, .....but that seems very one dimensional and doesn't really lend to the credibility of what was said, just its popular agreement.....which is more often than not, based on something other than the argument put forth. People go with prejudgments, biases and loyalties, whether it supports a group they already identify with, whether the language is aesthetically pleasing to them or shocking, whether they already had that opinion....and more. To create a platform that filters out attention in favor of legitimacy it'd seem like a deeper dive into the specifics of what is trusted and what isn't about each post is needed. And it seems to me that either Uptrust is either doomed to keep variance out of it, as the experience of their product is one where odd voices can't break in, leading eventually to a kind of stagnancy, or I'm missing something pivotal about how it works.

The other thing on my mind is what scores mean? I posted something and my score went up.....but I've noticed that nobody else has anything but 0....and I'm wondering why that is. Wouldn't everyone have different scores depending on how much they're posts are trusted?

That said, I also don't know what "bridges" are or how to use them.

Also......in the one post I did post, I was trying to add a pic to it to make it more interesting, but when I pushed the "upload images" button, nothing happened.

Any guidance would be appreciated. Sorry to be so needy........THERE WAS a tutorial when I first signed up, but it didn't tell me anything before it was gone.

Thanks.

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