RE: Help Fix Steem's Economy!
yes, i suggested a 10% separate pool, this does mean that they'll be more or less guaranteed 10% of value being reorganized by downvotes at all times
but i think the witnesses want to go with free downvotes being just as strong as upvotes which i'm against
I think weaker downvotes is good. slower recharge/faster drain is the same as weaker and probably one way of implementing it
If it's not a completely separate pool i think 20-30% free downvotes (3-5x slower regen or faster drain) is probably enough, maybe even a shade lower
The idea is to have something that's enough to deter 'abuse' by knocking it down a bit so that they might as well just upvote good content to compete for the 50% curation. We only need an amount that's sufficient to knock down bad voting behavior to roughly half at any given time to render it no more competitive than playing the game fairly, and under the new system I imagine this sort of behavior would drop sharply, so we don't need a sledgehammer
I agree we should keep downvotes in moderation, please tell the witnesses this. It'll be a disaster if they go 100% free downvotes
Edit: I don't think anyone cares about rep. As it is now it doesn't really affect anything so it won't serve to alter behavior much
Exactly. A deterrent, not a nuclear bomb with a hair trigger.
I'll try to throw the ideas in the mix if I'm around some witnesses on the chain, but I'm not the guy with all the connections. Hopefully they're still reading.
As for rep, you're right, but some are quite proud of their trophies and we did have that one somewhat botched airdrop that was dependent on reputation. I kinda like mine. I polish it up at night, sing to it; you know, normal things.
Was it a botched airdrop? I got 20 steem out of byteballs, felt happy about that. Not sure what airdrops are supposed to be like.
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I did not realize that there was a movement for free downvotes. If the only two choices are free downvotes or cheaper downvotes, obviously cheaper is better. But either will destroy the motivation to create quality content.
Choice A: Put up a gif of a miner, self vote and hope it sneaks by the downvoting posse.
Choice B: Put 3 - 6 hours of work into a post, hope it gets votes, then hope it sneaks by the downvoting posse.
For anyone with a job and life, choice A wins the vast majority of the time.