RE: Why Should Commenters Make 38X More Rewards?
Upvoted and resteemed for a great discussion.
on the basis that it isn't necessary and the comments do fine as they are
I think this is a really big fallacy in the argument though. The discussion is not really about "is it a good idea to reward comments more?" I think everyone actually agrees that this part is a good idea. The problem is with how it is being accomplished.
I've written elsewhere that I am still undecided on this, so don't take this comment as me saying I am 100% against this change. There are a lot of points in your post that I agree with, and there is a large part of me that thinks it is a good idea to at least try it out. There are definite benefits to the change, and I'm not sure how bad the reasons against it will be in practice. (We can also always roll it back in HF 18 if it is really as bad as everyone says it is.)
The main concerns are that:
- A significant portion of curation rewards are being removed
- It is a violation of KISS
- It is yet another complicated part of the platform for users to learn
- There are users who siphon off portions of their rewards by upvoting things from sock-puppet accounts. Policing this with posts is already quite difficult, and doing it with comments would be extremely difficult.
- Currently users who are commenting are doing so purely out of a desire to contribute to the discussion. With significant potential rewards, and little-to-no cost to post sub-par comments, it is likely we will see a significant increase in low quality / spam comments.
I believe that the people who are arguing against the change would just prefer to find a different solution to the problem.
Myself, I don't think it's a violation of kiss because unlike SP and SBD and voting power, it isn't something users have to learn about. If they realise their vote is more powerful on comments than on posts they may question it, but it isn't something you have to understand to avoid mistakes like the Wallet or curation system for example.
As for upvoting yourself with your own accounts, I'm unsure but I think the reward curve they are proposing is meant to somewhat solve that issue.
Oh and thanks so much for the resteem
Any user that is planning to earn curation rewards would. Whether curation rewards are good and bad is a whole separate discussion, but as long as they are part of the platform they are something that users will need to wrap their heads around.
I'm a huge fan of the formula change, but technically it makes the problem of self-voting worse.
Welcome! :)
I hadn't considered users who seek curation rewards because I always consider new users to be minnows who can't gain curation rewards until they power up. But although I had thought that somebody would fully understand the system before investing I have noticed at least one large SP account with very little understanding of the curation system so I guess there is that.