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RE: A suggestion for managing Vote Power
I think it sounds like it could work. I am at 25% of minnow VP right now, so I am trying to only upvote on things that I feel are very important...hoping to let my VP get stronger. I cannot choose the vote strength yet, but I will be watching to see how it works for you so I will understand when I can.
As @timcliff responded thoughtfully to explain it to me in the ticket I raised about the vote slider for minnows, the parameter that we Witnesses can control to relax the limitation based on Steem Power, does not resolve the issue.
I am suggesting that minnows be given something like a 1-5 scale, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100% options. This multiplies your ability to vote by 5x, which should not exceed bandwidth, and allows new users to learn how to conserve their vote power so they succeed in feeding the network more accurate information about the approval of the community upon a post or comment.
great idea!👍
I think it would help, because most minnows are coming from social media sites where a thumbs up is a nod, or gesture...and it has no effect on the larger community. It is a learning curve to think of a larger pool and voting power, to learn that an upvote actually matters.
That's right, and not only that, facebook sucks up every click voraciously, and they also have the ability to actually track when users browsers and client applications access their accounts.
Yes, that too... Something that might be very helpful to slow down excessive minnow voting, could be a video tutorial that one must watch before joining. Something that explains how upvotes work here vs on social media, and how voting power works.
This could well be a very good idea indeed. You don't need any permission to make such a video, and post it in a post. If people really like it, it could get added to the initial page when you first create an account.
If I only knew how to make videos ;) I am good with leather and metalworking, but videos are beyond me. I will pass the idea along though and maybe someone will make a good one.
That's the spirit. #project-smackdown would not be happening were it not for @personz getting involved and implementing a bot.
I am reading @timcliff post now "Pull Request Submitted - Update Vote Slider Threshold to Include Delegated SP", and if that were to happen I would actually be able to vote...and use the slider much sooner. When I joined, someone delegated quite a bit of SP to me, but I never knew what it was for, because it doesn't seem to be available in any way.
I will be following both of you, and listening...Thank you :)