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RE: Upvotes - what's the best way?
@steemboys What's your opinion on those who want to just use Steemit to make money and apparently don't give a darn about the platform? Today I got wind of a guild whose members will upvote each other. Is this new or have I just not heard of it before? And this is not like Curie, the purpose of which is to help newbies get started. It's only to make money, apparently without regard for the welfare of the Steemit platform.
My opinion on that is if people abuse the system, solutions have to be found within the steemit developer team and within the algorythm. These people exist everywhere and they unwillingly help to built a stronger platform by challenging the developers and others to give answers. The more people are involved though with steem and steemit the stronger the demand, since the supply is on a fixed rate. So for the steem marketcap i believe almost all active users regardless of their intentions are a positive thing. I recently heard of guilds as well and will investigate a bit to have a clear opinion on that, that might be an interesting blogpost.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply @steemboys Good points. Here's the post that got me thinking about this: https://steemit.com/steemtools/@cian.dafe/compounding-steemit-profit-and-the-power-of-the-guild It has two videos. Maybe you'll find them interesting. Have a great day!
The problem is with the money. The solution is thus in the same place - the money. We need to separate the investment returns from the curation returns. In other words all investors should be rewarded equally, according to the size of their investment, and curators should be rewarded according to the quality of their curation. I think investors should however retain some non-monetary priviledges, such as the ability to bump a comment (their own, or someone else’s), to the top of the list of comments.
I agree that there is a problem with curation spam designed to milk the reward system, and especially with the auto-bots which automatically upvote those with the most followers at exactly 19 minures after the post was made. What’s needed is an Ebay-like feedback system, so we can curate the curators and weight them accordingly. “How many stars do you give to each person who up-voted, and to each person who commented”. That way spam curators would not make as much as genuine curators