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RE: A Different Approach to Curation: Quality Based Consensus and Quality Discovery
This definitely sounds interesting-- we can really use an improvement to the current system, especially if it can be calibrated to be more encouraging of human curation, as opposed to automated curation. One of the factors I would still like to see included in the algorithm for curation is involvement. I strongly believe that (for example) a whale with 500,000SP who has never posted or commented and has a rep of 25 should "count" for less than a whale with 500,000SP who has 10,000+ posts/comments and a rep of 73.
But that's only peripheral to your suggestion... as a content creator (and active manual curator) I am all for authentic quality (which I recognize is subjective) being curated to the top and given more visibility.
I like your idea of using contribution as a factor rather than just stake. The weighting could be a combination of some these factors where the biggest contributors hold the largest weight. Contribution being defined as some combination of reputation, activity, and Steem holdings.
I like your approach to weighing the curators differently than on their SP, but I would prefer that to be topical, i.e. knowledge based.
As such the platform would assess the curators also on their own posts, and their success/failure, and base a weight on that, as well as posted content and comments (both weighted differently).
Only then will we come to a level where quality becomes the true weighing factor of the curation.
Why does this matter? The content spinner who focuses on posting about social media can easily hash out hundreds of posts a month, without knowing more than 20% and ever truly going in depth. Quora slightly tries to do this by making the bio xcerpt visible for each answer, even if one can make it specific to that answer. But it can make one think that replier's answer should be consider higher, and thus checked in extended view. Algorithmically we could achieve that if the concept is taken to a SMT and both contributors and curators are assessed on every post and its success/failure. Obviously, that requires an incubation period.
But it could lead to ultimately quality over quantity.
Otherwise, I like where this is/could be going.