RE: Your voices have been heard: Steem 0.14.0 will improve voting rewards!
Dan you aren't thinking like a user. Please for the love of god get some usability experts to help you out. You need to start taking into account optics and casual users. Do you not want this platform to be adopted by the masses? Maybe I'm confused about your goal.
This is not the right approach to be taking if you want the platform to grow and be adopted by more casual users.
The optics of a 5 vote limit is problematic. Spare us the math and fancy new tools that we'll have to use to do something so simple as upvote and figure out a way that we can upvote by clicking on what we like without worrying about how much that vote is worth and how many other votes I plan to do etc.
There is no need to make something simple and intuitive into something complex and burdensome.
At the very least start with 10 or 20 votes and show us a positive effect.
That is exactly what Steemit Inc needs! UX advice. While steemit is wonderful, it is currently "by engineers for engineers", thus hampering mainstream adoption.
What they need is to profile several users, only one of them being tech savvy crypto veteran.
If the idea is to teach the masses about crypto world it is best to simplify, not make things more complicated.
Steemit is much more user friendly then BitShares, but it is not user friendly enough! While my experience in UX design isn't all that great (I worked in it for maybe 8 months), I've read a lot on usability before that gig, and after. There clearly IS a problem.
In scenarios like this it is useful for powers that be play the "Prince and Pauper" game. Try starting as a minnow, and get an accout at least to what is it where you get the slider 300 SP? At least a couple of days of only using the minnow account would be very insightful!
Yeah, I would love for a few founding whales to do an undercover boss like research experiment.