RE: HF19 has caused chaos, and someone has to do something.
Your post makes an excellent argument!
Steemit is about sharing quality content for the betterment, instruction, and enjoyment we all have to offer each other, and for THAT quality content to be agreed upon by popular consensus, and rewarded monetarily.
@the-traveller is correct:
Behaviour is a consequence of the incentive structure.
To NOT upvote your own work means you don't understand how to maximize your own compensation.
Mind you, rudely rinsing out and commenting utter bollocks on your own posts just to get paid goes against the spirit of this platform, and, well, is transparent and just gross.
I love the new change, but can see how that abuse can eventually be realized by all users and ultimately kill the potential this platform has in the long run; by discouraging new people from contributing after they've joined.
A suggestion that may arrest this in HF 20 would be that a user can upvote only one of their own posts just once every 24 hours - thus encouraging the contribution of quality when limited to one self-vote per day.
Similarly, on ANY post a user can upvote their comment at full power only once, with a log scale decline in the power of their upvotes to ANY additional comments under that same core post.
Incentive attenuated, but not eliminated.
Thank you @thatsweeneyguy for addressing this!
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I like the idea of only being able to upvote your own content once per day. I know that something needs to be worked out to try and fight the abuse.
That's a reasonable approach, isn't it?
I've seen a lot of people post a lot of nonsense many times a day...
Maybe an even better upgrade would be to limit the NUMBER of posts an individual can post to just ONE a day...
Who knows?
I trust the segwit on this platform, let's see what happens 🙂
I'm not sure if limiting everyone to one POST a day would be good. I personally have 4 or 5 subjects I blog about, and post between 2 and 4 posts per day, spreading them out over the whole day
Ok, perfect!
Let's hope the witnesses are paying attention - perhaps limit your OWN self upvoted to just 4 a day and your personal Steem powered value upvotes are equally divided between your upvotes - you would get all the upvote VALUE, distributed between several of your posts equally.
Seems fair to me 😊