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RE: BIP 1 – Targeting Voting Power
How about making the limit per person is once every 2 or 3 days?
The other limit is to have a specific number of upvotes per day.
This way people could alternate in using @qustodian service for voting their posts, but trade that with better upvotes on their posts
Eventually when SP increases, @qustodian can upvote more with higher payouts, or buy upvotes like @minnowbooster does.
Just thinking out loud ;)
The problem is managing the voting power equation. Current usage levels see you getting a 0.15 cent upvote on average per request. The bot is voting at around 40 - 50% voting weight, so every second day could give you an 80% vote, but it cannot vote at more than 100%, so a third day would not be too great. To be honest, this is the second time I see this proposal and I am considering it. The only problem is the effort and revamp I need to put into the backend databases to implement it. So while I am working on it, it will take a while as I am cleaning that code to be more flexible in future. This work will tie in with the rolling average VP algorithm.
So in summary, yes I think that saving an upvote is certainly warranted, especially if posts are more irregular and of higher quality. It will just take me some time.
You can stop the votes while working on making @qustodian better. I am sure everyone will understand that it is made for their best interest in mind :)
P.S: Thank you for the tip our lovely @qustodian :D
I work on a development branch which uses the @soloinfinity test account before cloning to production, which is this service. So I don't need to stop it, people just need to understand it takes time to test properly and implement these changes, so they wont see any suggestions made and approved tomorrow, but I am working on it.
The tip was my pleasure, but the motive was to promote your thread. You just happen to benefit :)
EDIT:
To see a more detailed explanation around the bots and specifically this one, go to https://steemit.com/qurites/@dashroom/the-not-so-subtle-direct-and-slightly-meta-question-how-do-you-feel-about-bots
Just in case you haven't decided:
I think capping the votes to once every 2-3 days would be consistent with the main idea to only push quality content. If you really post quality content it takes time. I for example only get one big quality post out every week and maybe one or two smaller not so sophisticated posts inbetween. Also people who post everyday still get the same support as the votes get equally bigger as the time between them get longer.
tl;rd: I'm also for stretching the time between the votes making them bigger.
I have thought long about this and I am going to create a weightbank where at the start of everyday everyone is allocated an equal amount of voteweight according to the current VP targeting algorithm at that point which is converted to an SBD vote. This will go into a 'votebank' which will buildup. It would mean I would need to broadcast what the weight was or build a site where everyone can view their current balance, but it seems fair.
There seems to be an assumption that less frequent writing implies better content, but this is not always the case. For some it could be their occupation.
So in this way you can smaller more frequent votes or one larger one. The idea is to reduce pressure to post more frequently to use the bot.
This can be revisited in future, but as for now it will be a implement and see approach
That's a great solution! I really like it, since it also helps me :D
I hope you will make a new post explaining the details when it's implemented.
Fantastic job!
How difficult would it be for the bot to respond with a countdown remaining when people try to use it too frequently? I am online sporadically throughout the day, depending on work demands, and it's tricky for me to remember at what time I used the service the previous day. Sometimes I go longer ~30-36 hrs between uses, and then today I mistakenly tried to use it after probably 18-20 hrs.
It won't be hard, but I am working on making a site that will include all these stats. So you can login and see. I will consider adding it into comments temporarily until then
A site with all the stats would be great! I will watch for the announcement.
as this has rooted through qurator that strives to have quality content. what if certain amount of vote power was withheld from the equal dole out.... and that say 5 submited posts a day would be selected to recieve a 50% upvote. (% would be determined by the equation that would allow to keep VP above 80%.) it could be guest curated...or even random. it just sometimes nice to feel selected and lucky, we often like this feeling of winning something. not to mention winners could be shown in a post after winners are known.... allowing more engagement. i dunno... im just spit balling... but think some idea like this generates excitement and gives an excuse for people to look into submitted posts. after all it is not just about the money upvote... quality content also seeks avenues for more visibility. cheers though....qustodian is a great idea.
I think this is a good idea. It would currently be unfair to use delegated SP for this, but if the bot grows I will calculate how much of the SP is "natural", currently 12 and spread the love around to boost Qurator featured posts (as a counter suggestion). Keep this idea in the backburner and remind me again on Discord or on another post. I need to setup an ideas system, a bit backlogged at the moment with the votebank stuff and some other requests.
I will make a post about this some time, I think it deserves a mention.