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RE: People Rank - Using Page Rank Algorithm for Better Curation and Rewards
People not understanding the curation rewards is a very simple UI problem. It would be trivial to add an indicator by the upvote button that gives you information about what sort of reward might be possible for your vote. "Percentage of curation rewards remaining" or something like that. This would help people understand how curation rewards work. Their confusion is understandable for two reasons:
- AFAIK the only public resource explaining them is the whitepaper and steem.io, which are both completely wrong;
- the actual implementation (with the (B+v)/(s+v) formula) can't be understood without a ton of work reading the code, running simulations, and really getting down into the guts of it.
Agreed. It would seem that the devs have a habit of thinking everyone understands this system as well as they do. That isn't a slam, I think it is valid criticism and something that all of us are guilty of. Doctors are notorious for using jargon and talking over the heads of patients and this is something I know from first hand experience and takes constant concerted effort to improve.
Anyway, you make good points. We are in beta and I can only assume that the UI will get a dedicated team to deal with making it more new user friendly. If we are to get many new users here, and keep them, this will surely need to be addressed.
Lol, I can see you are not an experienced developer. No offense. But that would lead to all sorts of misunderstandings.
Haha, it's true - I'm not a developer.
But the opacity of the current interface is already leading to all sorts of misunderstandings. It's also leading to people "wasting" their votes on trending articles. I don't know, maybe that's the point.
What are the misunderstandings that would be so egregious?
@biophil, I am very very sleepy so this reply may not be so great. In short, the masses won't ever understand it, the cognitive load is too high. K.I.S.S.