Shunned

[joshuef]

@neo

I was told its every node deciding for itself. close groups are for chunks and each chunk has its close group of nodes. Not nodes forming close groups. Nodes now are autonomous and make decisions on their own, not as any sort of groups, they share information and work off shared information but still decide for themselves.

Yup, the CLOSE_GROUP is a data-ownership concept, but not used at all in the shunning process.

Nodes close to, can and will judge neighbours. They may inform them of that decision (I think that’s the you have been shunned type log we’re seeing… ). That means that one node has shunned it. That is. currently permanent for that node. But if no one else shuns, you’re still sufficiently in the network.

So effective shunning is an emergent behavior, rather than one that requires consensus or some threshold.