RE: Fixing DMania - A Compromise "To Leave Both Parties Equally Unsatisfied"
Warning: This is just my personal opinion, don't judge me that hard for it :)
The purpose is better than good, but the approach is not very happy...
This limiting depending on SP does not favor newcomers at all, as we already have problems with user retention. I know it will be very effective, but dmania will be almost restricted to whales and minnows.
And yet, making the calculus, people that try to phish for votes will more likely use 200 accounts of 100 SP rather than just one of 20k SP, the upvotes are even more valuable in the first case than in the second one.
This was my honest opinion, hope you don't mind. Maybe some images recognition software (even searching images with Google* is pretty effective these days) could fix the plagiarism problem. And just have some mods reviewing the upvotes will be enough I guess.
*Google provides a searching for images API which could be investigated in this case. That's just a random suggestion :D
"This limiting depending on SP does not favor newcomers at all, as we already have problems with user retention. "
The numbers are arbitrary and could be lower or higher. The goal is not to prevent newcomers from participating. Newcomers can participate immediately if they invest in Steem.
If you don't want to invest in the platform, no free meme reward for you. Seems fair.
I am more concerned about INVESTOR retention than USER retention.
"This was my honest opinion, hope you don't mind."
Any civil opinion is always welcome here.
"Google provides a searching for images API which could be investigated in this case. That's just a random suggestion :D"
This has been suggested by others before both of us, and it has not been implemented. Those who run Dmania either do not have the resources to do so, or do not want to. Hence, we must suggest other roundabout solutions like the one I did above.
I'm a little baffled on the fact that I've read no one ever say this...
We keep on talking about user retention, I do so myself almost daily and it seems like we forget that without investment we would be sharing 100% of nothing at all.
I gave up pointing it out because I was tired of getting dog-piled by communists.
No, you are so right, we need indeed more investors here! Another fact is that this could not be a successful social media platform without plenty of users, but without investors, things can get really bad. I din't know if one thing is more important than the other, but it is true that we need more from both :)
Thank you for the information about dmania, I didn't knew all of these things, I am not so much into memes.