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RE: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE STEEM COMMUNITY - What Do You Think of Steem Basic Income (SBI)? [steem] [blockchain] [community]
I'm awfully conflicted on it right now.
I see pros & cons.
Pros:
- good prize to give out
- supports smaller Steemians who don't have their supportive audience yet
- benefits the giver & the receiver
- enables daily income for daily writers
Cons:
- goes against the proof-of-brain economics, as I won't truly know whether the person I'm gifting a share to will keep up their post quality
- promotes auto-upvoting, which in and of itself isn't wrong, but blindly given out in giveaways might become problematic
Here's a thought: What if SBI changed to a more exclusive members party, where only qualified, recommended, and approved people will get in? It totally changes the payout math, and sorta stunts the "help out a small user" narrative, but maybe it's ultimately a better path?
I don't know... Like I said, I haven't made up my mind yet ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯
Thank you for your reply @stuffbyspencer you do bring up good points on both sides of the pic. I think the only thing so far about the cons though, is that they are mostly if's, albeit valid if's. I do like your proposal but I also think that for example, when I give out SBI, I try to vet the person I am sending them too. Of course I am half the beneficiary of those sent Steem to, so I know what I will be doing and hopefully the person I sent them to will continue doing good with it....but it does take quite a bit of SBI to really start "gaming" the system as it stands. For many, it is an occasional up vote with a few points in rewards. Anyway, with the recent announcements and changes coming, this all might be moot anyway. Thanks again.
Yes to all of these challenges!
You may like to know that SBI has manually monitored quality on the negative end of the spectrum and removed votes from members that have been blacklisted by multiple communities. SBI was also one of the most open communities about manually re-reviewing those accounts as they attempt to raise their post quality to get unblacklisted.
More manual work is not the solution, if only because it ain't gonna happen (but also because of this truth)
SBI has some more cards up their sleeve...but I will never be convinced that because one guy doesn't like what we build, we should be obliged to change. The limitation to proof-of-brain to something called 'quality' is a mistake in all its forms.
I didn't realize that they review content, that's good to know! I understand the limitation of using more manual work, and I suppose there will always be those that fall through the cracks. But with a system like this it's important to make the cracks as tiny as possible.