Proposal for a Gridcoin community steemit account
Steemit is growing at an incredible speed, new users are joining us everyday and new content gets created every second. On Tuesday 5 December 2017 89'906 posts were published on steemit. That's about one post per second. And 381,743 upvotes were made. This makes more than 4 upvotes per second! Writing a post that stands out from the crowd and is read is not easy and often associated with luck. There are some curator on steemit, but they sometimes demand SBD in return for an upvote. New users have to buy into the system to get upvotes from this accounts. Gridcoin has a lively and active community on steemit. Well-known and appreciated community members like @vortac and @dutch curate good posts about Gridcoin here. These upvotes are important to highlight good posts and increase the activity and visibility of the Gridcoin community on steemit.
Why we need an independent community account
The biggest part of the value of all upvotes of Gridcoin Community comes through @vortac. That is excellent and I am grateful for his work. Unfortunately, the Gridcoin community depends on him. And he has great responsibility and power to steer the discussions on Steemit. Independent and differentiated opinion-forming can only come about if different opinions are presented. With a community account, the independent curation can be secured on steemit.
The tasks of the community account
I see the task of the community account only in the curation of good posts. The account should NOT be used to post posts about Gridcoin and with that to control public opinion-forming.
Which roles ensure the independency of the community account
Owner
There should be one person that has access to the owner key of the community account. With this key one can change all other keys and have full access to the account.
The owner should be a trusted and well-known community member. I was thinking of @dutch. The owner is elected by a vote in the Gridcoin client.
Curators
Curators only have access to the posting key. That means they can't transfer funds or power up. They are responsible to curate good Gridcoin posts with upvotes.
The upvoting is done based on rules that ensures that every opinion is respected and nobody gets censored. The curators are elected by a vote in the Gridcoin client.
What do you guys think? Is it worth to further investigate this idea? If you think so I'm willing to write a draft of the curation rules.
Thank you, @grider123. Indeed, Gridcoin community can rely on me for honest and objective curation, with ample rewards :)
But of course, an independent community account would be a far better solution. Perhaps we could spend some Foundation funds to set it up properly? A community account with zero Steem Power won't make any difference, I am afraid. In my opinion, funding a Gridcoin community Steemit account is a good marketing move, but I would have to exclude myself from voting on it, since we don't want anyone to think I am planning to use Foundation funds to boost my investments here.
I would propose keeping Foundation Funds out of it at the start. Let's see if we can use Steemit's internal mechanisms to their fullest! We can all delegate our steem power to the new account and see how much we can get the community to contribute. Maybe give that a few weeks to see what happens.
If that is still not enough power for relevant curation power, I would propose that we put together a ROI system for the Foundation Wallet funds that we use to contribute to the curation account. Under this idea, all the funds used to kick-start the curation account would ultimately be returned to the foundation with interest. This would be done by selling a percentage of the steem/sbd earned and buying Gridcoin.
Thoughts?
I would gladly donate some sp for this cause :D
Sounds like a good idea to use foundation funds to give the community account more weight. Hope to get this going :)
good vortac is good, here's another thanks for the support :*
I don't see the need - we can all post content without the need for a centralized account.
Please read the proposal carefully. It's about a curation account. The account wouldn't post. It's just to encourage people making good gridcoin posts.
I don't fully understand the statement ''The account should NOT be used to post posts about Gridcoin and with that to control public opinion-forming.''
What do you mean? what is the aim of the proposal if not posting about GRIDCOIN?
Sorry if I'm mistaken..
The aim is to curate e.g. vote for good gridcoin posts. To motivate users to write good gridcoin content. If we would publish posts under a "official gridcoin" account this would lead to centralization because most users would trust this account probably more.
Ok, I see, not used for posting but only for curation,
thanks for clarifying, was simple...
I support your proposal ;-)
I think this is an idea worth exploring!
Sounds like a nice idea if we can get the mechanics of it worked out, i.e. make sure it is secure and fair. At the face of it it sounds like it might work. So I'll put my vote behind it as something to explore further!
@vortac how do you have so much money?? :P (I don't expect you to answer that ... it's just shocking to me as a poor PhD student haha)
I was a regular middle-class guy who got lucky and spotted the Gridcoin ad on boincstats in Nov 2015 (thank you @cm-steem -> he financed that advertising campaign with €). The price of Bitcoin was around $350 then (yes, three hundred and fifty dollars, it's not a typo). Over the next few months, I bought like 130 BTC, spending most of my savings. I invested it all into GRC initially, since I believed BTC has run its course. It turned out it hasn't, but nevertheless I was hodling GRC dearly, selling some of it during occasional spikes in 2016 and reinvesting partially into STEEM and BTS. Learn from my experience :)
@vortac wow. That's awesome. I got in on Gridcoin August 2016 and mined a few thousand but unfortunately didn't buy. I finally bought a significant quantity this summer and so far have quadrupled my initial investment... but still nowhere near as good as you :P
One would hope that we're still in the early stages of crypto and Gridcoin. I'm imagining how fun it would be if we "early" adopters got super duper rich, like filthy rich (yeah, I know I'm not really "early".. but anyways). We could all timeshare mansions around the world and throw enormous parties.... the geeks that we are I'm sure it would be wild hahaha.
(95% joking ... I'm obviously not here just to get rich. That's definitely not the Gridcoin ethos.. I'd much rather see Gridcoin be a genuine success and benefit to science/humanity vs. just get rich. Still though haha..)
Overall, I like your idea :)
just wanted to add gridcoin also get's support due to its scientific nature from @steemstem when applicable. A meme can't be upvoted, but an article for example explaining how gridcoin can help cure/discover/whatever will probably get some love :)
i don't really like this idea. what about content you don't curate? does that get swept under the rug as unofficial? using the #gridcoin tag seems sufficient enough to keep everything in order.
i am in no way in favour of delegating steem power for voting. this is a money-flipping scheme, and i feel it goes against the honestly good parts of steemit. honest rewards for curation to actual people, etc. i recently noticed an auto-generated post made by a bot.... things like this rub me the wrong way. why should you make money if you're not even on the site?