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RE: Humans are better than bots at valueing posts
A couple of corrections/observations:
I absolutely agree that the slider is a good thing. However, it has nothing to do with the actual change in daily vote target. Percentage strength voting has always been available through the CLI, and bringing it to the UI would not require a hardfork or a change in the vote target.
Although the stated reason this rule was made was to fight bots, it will effect not only bots, but all active curators. And the main beneficiary of reducing the influence of active curators will be the least engaged members of the community, those that only cast 5 votes or less a day at full power.
The slider has already been available in the web UI, it just isn't enable for people below a certain SP level or something.
My point is that the combination of the voting power slider and the new rule will be better to the whole system. New rule will create proper incentives for users to actually use the slider. It will force users to think better how powerfully they cast their votes. Results will be: 1) Much fairer distribution of author rewards and 2) decreased power of bots.
Yeah, it's true that most active curators could lose also, but I'm not so sure it will be so bad as some have claimed. If the active curators use the slider, they can adjust how fast they deplete their power. If they make sure that they have always enough power to vote for a supergreat post, they can still make a lot of money. After all, they are active so they have the best chances to spot a popular hit before anybody else. And if they are more interested in rewarding good authors, with the new rule they will have more power to do that, only negative side is that they can't do it dozens of times per day.
The slider doesn't force less-active curators to think carefully, they just vote maximum power all the time. In fact that is not a terrible thing for just about anyone to do because of how vote power adjusts to your voting frequency (once your vote power is half consumed your votes naturally become half as powerful even without moving the slider).
The slider does give a fine-tuning tool that people can use, but whether that is really a good thing or not I'm not sure. I think a lot of people just like to vote if they like something without really thinking about it, and that is probably a good thing if you want wider participation and better curation results.
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+%0A%0AWider participation maybe... but better curation results? I don't see much good in people voting %22nice comments%22 with full power.
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