Proposal: Earn Voting Power With Non-Generic Post Replies
A Proposal Based on Recent Discussions
Problems:
- Bots: The "follow the whale" auto-vote strategy may be the main issue we're facing. People will auto-vote a whale or try to predict how they will vote. Value is subjective so a prediction market may just end up creating a more sophisticated bot to effectively do the same thing (ie. "follow the whale" + "predict post value")
- Not enough people vote
- Not enough people reply
Solution
I was thinking about ways to minimize the "follow the whale" strategy. One way is to limit the number of votes that count if you vote for the same whale/account or if you vote for the same posts as a whale/account. You can just set an arbitrary limit like 20 in a week so if a whale votes 140 times in a week it may be more advantageous to not follow the whale. However the next problem becomes sybil voting. "Follow the whale" strategies may still be effective using sock-puppet accounts to make up for vote limits.
One way to prevent sybil-voting is to identify real humans, or at least minimize sybil-bots. I think we want to encourage voting and we also want to encourage replies. (We encourage activity & retention by rewarding voting and replies. We can kill three birds with one stone.) The community can enforce against 'bot'-replies by downvoting any generic reply or at least downvoting it to zero. Any upvoted reply can earn voting power. Maybe a person can earn voting power based on non-stake-weighted or stake-weighted voting, but if stake-weighted it should probably be more evenly distributed. The main concern with voting on replies is that the community needs to identify generic bot-replies and enforce against it.
Proposal:
- Allow Steemians to earn voting power with non-generic post replies
- Secondarily we can consider placing limits on votes that overlap with whales.
That is actually a more sound proposal. Placing limits on votes that overlap with wales per week is a great idea.
I just believe that rewarding Curation is a must to give incentive to people and new users to join and use steem-it on a regular basis.
Plus, for me as a user with little steem power, making our vote count will give us incentive to be more engaged and evaluate content properly.
I dont know if all this made sense :)
Yes I agree. Voting makes us active users!
I thought we already were rewarded for posting replies?
Also how did you guys sort your avatar pics out? :D