It has the promise of being a "competences graph", where you being endorsed for "foo" is worth more if those endorsing you for it themselves are endorsed for "f

It has the promise of being a "competences graph", where you being endorsed for "foo" is worth more if those endorsing you for it themselves are endorsed for "foo", on the premise that it "takes one to know one". This would then be useful metadata that qualifies the rather dimension-less "connection". But yeah, the execution is so horrid that it reeks of malice.