Lack of incentive to vote for new users (solution)
Are you a new user trying to make it big?
If you are a new user posting similar quality content to well established users but getting nothing compared to them, you must feel discouraged. The way the system is currently designed has more incentive for people to vote for well established users in order to maximise curation rewards, making it very hard for new users to get started and limiting the content on this site. Furthermore, people know what gets the most upvotes so people imitate what they see get the most upvotes thus limiting content. A solution to this could be giving additional curation rewards for upvoting people with low rep, for example:
SOLUTION
Increase the rewards that curators get for upvoting people with a certain amount of rep level (let's say 50).
For example, imagine you are the first voter.
Your curation rewards is x
If the post you upvoted gets more than 10 votes, the first 5 upvoters' rewards are multiplied by (2-(steemrep/50))
If someone is brand new and has a rep of 25, the first 5 upvoters will receive 1.5x curation rewards.
There can be more thresholds like at 25 upvotes, the first 10 upvoters receive an additional (2-(steemrep/50))
This will make it more rewarding for curators to upvote new members thus promoting new content into our ever-growing community. My vision for the future of Steemit is not a select society of similar people, but rather a community of all different types of people.
Furthermore, Steemit could also give additional rewards to new genres of content to promote diversity but that's probably harder to implement.
Link to another suggestion that could increase diversity of content: https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptoeater/a-possible-improvement-for-the-future-of-steemit-for-better-quality-content
This is my second post regarding the same thing, my last post was here https://steemit.com/steemit/@cryptoeater/curation-rewards-problem-for-new-users-solution-at-bottom but I felt like it didn't get as much attention as I wanted it to, if this is considered spam I'm sorry and i'll stop!
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