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| contacts to me. All my contacts think Bob is just the kitten's mittens, but all your contacts think Bob is mad as a bag of hammers, so we get different scores for Bob.

The cool| thing about that is that the better information you provide, the better information the Trust Graph gives you back. You're incentivized to rate accurately.

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**An Aside:** *Your| TGS for yourself is like asking your trusted contacts what they think of you. Hopefully they all think you're a stand up guy.*

Right now, there's not a lot of rating data, so we| infer some ratings. If you follow someone, that's a 3.5/5 rating. If you invested in a creator coin, that's a 4.5 rating, a block is a rating of 2. It's not perfect, but it's some| data to start with. You can override those ratings and attach a comment on a member's profile page. Your comments show up on mouseovers on the Trust Graph too.

![](https://i.imgur.c|om/5ctKuzb.png)

**What if I have a lot of followers?** Won't my score get dragged down to a 3.5 average. Yes, but only to a point. We average over the first 15 trusted contacts. Past| 15, it won't drag your score down. Also the score is just an approximation of the information provided in the graph. A TGS of 4 averaged over 15 contacts is probably better than a| TGS of 5 provided by just one contact. **Look at the context, look at the whole graph.**