RE: Changing the Curation system - Might be wise, but we need to be careful!
Ohh wauuw thanks for the compliments first of all. We need more people like you chilling Steem. Awesome that Steemit highlighted you on Twitter btw!
Yes, people can self-vote for sure. But that would mean he would need to buy STEEM of the market to make it worth it. + He will likely not get any other votes and thus has to keep making a ton of posts (or spam but then he risks to get flagged as our users are getting more passionate by the day)
What prevents users from self-voting if we don't change? Are there no self-voters today? So with or without a change of code, that stays the same. The only difference is, if we change to non-time based curation, that users will not vote for people like "the famous chartist" anymore.
There are chances of course that people will still just login once a day and vote for the first posts they encounter. (This will redistribute the rewards evenly so I don't see a problem in that)Communities who rely on curation trails have an even bigger incentive as they all want the extra users and VP to follow their trail. Curation trails often have a rule that they vote for their curators once a day. So imo it is even more lucrative to have a curation trail with a massive following. The game just changes. Hopefully, users follow trails so their votes do not go to waste. OR just vote manually if they have time, interest.
Thanks so much for this post!
Wow, I didn't even now that Steemit shared my article on Twitter, but checked it out, and truly, it is there. That is awesome! Thanks for letting me now!
I do understand your upvoting problem, I just see it as getting more tempting as one get more power. For those whose upvote is worth nothing, not so interesting, but it might make it more tempting for whales to vote for own content or create tons of users and just vote for their crappy content (maybe)!
I get the point with the curation trails, so you might be true, but I also know that not all curation trails work that way. Of course, making the rewards equal, would make it easier to join a curation trail, simply because it would still give you the same benefit of upvoting, and it would make it an easier way to earn passive income. However, I fear the curation part would get weaker, simply because it wouldn't be so inspiring anymore to actually look for that content worth curating.
I will have to think more about it, it is absolutely worth thinking about!
Hi,
it actually is mindblowing to me that whales are the ones that game the system the most. Short term thinking and a quick ROI without thinking at potential future value. You would think that they benefit from a stable high price but nope. Maybe and hopefully we can get the message to the right people. We just need to speak up. I am not gonna do nothing.
It is never gaming proof, a DPOS is not IMO. What we can do it try to make it less lucrative and push the behavior we want down their throat.
Thanks!
It's sad to see that you (@steemingcurators) are praising people who share your view, and are a bit rude and unpleasent with comments to those (like myself) who shared feedback with didn't go along with your narrative .... :(
I reacted the same way as you did sir. Comments, like: How long have you even be around, You didn't do your homework, you got no clue, etc.. Without adding any value yourself is rude as well. It is your style of communicating so I am not going to bitch about it. But please.
It is easy to say: I do not like the idea. Or to come with facts that other people present you. Or even worse, do nothing and just to leave it at it is. It's not that others, who clearly did not have the best intentions tell me that this is the best solution, that I just swallow that and move on.
I am praising people who show me respect, not the idea. You can read all comments and check if my behavior towards others match with how they communicate or present themselves. I opened a discussion, and the blanks were for you guys to fill in. I could have done it myself but then its a monologue and not a discussion. For you, that was the trigger to leash out or to talk denigrating.
Thanks for your comments!