2 Killer Steemit Features I Would Like to See
1) Supercharging your vote
We have the promotion feature and it is a nice addition but as @stellabelle and I have discussed this does not allow people to power up their vote in any way.
My proposal is to allow people to "supercharge" their vote with Steem Dollars which would effectively allow them to vote as if they were a whale.
Most people would never have enough money to be able to do this via powering up the normal way. By allowing them to give special votes in this way you not only decrease the perceived inequality but you also increase the utility of Steem Dollars.
The money gets added to the value of the post like any other vote and goes to the author and curators without getting burned.
2) When you Power Up your SP Your Voting Power Percentage resets to 100
This would need to have a minimum value set on it to prevent people gaming it but if a decent limit of say 20 STEEM/SP was set I think a fair balance could be created. It might need a trial period to get the balance right but I don't see any negatives to at the very least trialling it.
I think it is only fair to reward people for supporting the platform by powering up and this would create an added incentive for doing it.
It would be another reason for people to keep powering up and not power down.
What do you think?
I would love to hear everyone else's opinions on these features. Have your say in the comments:
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Great idea I posted a similar idea like this over a month ago to allow all minnows to become a whale for 24 hours! https://steemit.com/steemit/@acassity/my-plan-to-bring-in-usd500-000-to-millions-in-revenue-for-steemit
That couldn't possibly work. The only thing preventing whales from exploiting the site (voting themselves/their buddies and just bad curation in general) is that they have a lot at stake. Becoming a whale for a day means you can give much more than ~$50's worth to anyone with a single upvote, including yourself.
It should be more expensive to Supercharge the account compared to the max reward it could give...
Where would that extra money go? It'd be burnt?
If anyone can come up with a possible implementation that's not exploitable, I'll be all for it. I just don't see it.
This "service" has the same problem that 99% of suggestions have: sybil attack.
A whale can supercharge their own post at no cost because they money comes back to themselves.
Some significant portion of the supercharged vote would need to be burned to discourage this kind of behavior.
There are other problems with this proposal that would result in massive abuse.
I've also expressed an opinion that "supercharging" (love your name for it!) your vote is really necessary here on Steemit! I've had several occasions when I meet a great post, I like it and it get's nothing more than it was. :( In those situations I wished I could donate some money from my wallet to support the post.
Absolutely - I don't know why we can't literally put our money where our mouth is on Steemit. Supercharging your vote should definitely be an option.
Thanks. It always seemed like an obvious feature to me.
Ooh I like the idea of supercharging your vote. Even charging it up a little. Sometimes I see posts that I really love and I wish I could give more than my measly little fraction of a cent lol.
+1 to that!
I like it.
Centered images by default would be great too.
Yes that would be nice. Particularly since the editor has a habit of removing centring if you switch views.
Great ideas! Maybe to implement we could give multiple votes to the same content, so if you want to sacrifice 5% of voting power on one vote you could. Maybe this allows the devs to implement your idea within the confines of the variables we have.
That would be another way of doing it but then that limits people according to their SP. This way people can directly use Steem Dollars to augment their vote.
Not sure what you mean by this. I understand the concept of giving more power to a vote temporarily, but I don't see how you can implement it. If you meant to say that I could add SBD to my vote that would be transferred to the payout directly, that doesn't work. The optimal move then would be to always supercharge and upvote yourself, since you'd be getting almost all of it back. Whales would start doing it and it would make the visibility issue much worse.
If you meant something else, please let me know.
For #2, I'm pretty sure it can't be a fixed rate. You'd have to effectively pay based on your remaining voting power %. I'd have to think a bit more about this, but intuitively, I'd say that the cost of bringing your vote back to full power would probably need to be higher than anyone would be willing to pay for it.
If you were to empty your votes in a day with ~40 votes, then you'd think the cost of bringing your voting power it back up to 100% would be
40*avg_upvote_worth- but I could be wrong.I like both ideas. I see a lot of people that are going unrecognized and producing great content. I would gladly pay to power up my vote to boost their content and I like the idea of utilizing the Steem Dollar in other ways. Even though it seems like tipping it goes further than that. like!
Great.
I really like both of these!
I've seem the discussion you've had before this on the supercharging/direct tip onto a post. I believe the main issue was preventing abuse of alt accounts 'supercharging' their own posts. But honestly, if there was a 'tip' slot separate from the payout earning, I would figure all parties would be happy.
On the second of resetting the vote power percentage on power up, also something I really like. This reminds me of getting a stamina refill on level up in various games. Again I could see the abuse issue of just constantly powering up small amounts like .001 Steem, but setting the 'refill' to occur at say every hundred SP or something might work.
Yes but that is no different from whales up-voting their own posts and pocketing the money. If it's OK in that situation why not this one?
Exactly so there would need to be a minimum amount to trigger it. I think that would encourage someone like me to power up faster for sure.
I'm good with both of those solutions :)