[Proposal] My first link-post and why I believe Steemit needs more of them!
In recent posts from @ned (see here) and @calaber24p (see here) further adaptations of the voting and curation process have been proposed in order to increase the demand for Steem Power.
I understand the rational of these proposals and it may well be that these would indeed further incentivize powering up.
However, turning the curation set screws alone will probably not be enough to foster significant growth of our platform. And it is growth that determines the value of our SP at the end of the day. Consequently, as we are all stakeholders of Steemit, fostering growth should be top priority for all of us.
What may help growing Steemit?
It is important yet not enough to focus on how to curate good content within Steemit. What we should (also) think about is how to use Steemit to curate the entire Internet!
I therefore propose to establish a specific section in which link-posting is encouraged. If Steemit proves to be a place that rewards the surfacing of great content from the web this would have the potential to attract a lot more people beyond the blogosphere. And we need to have more people here! Millions in fact to catch up with our market cap!
So in this regard here my first link-post:
Now, how to deal with the earnings from such link-posts?
Here is my proposal:
I propose to establish a special section for link-posts where a different payout scheme is automatically applied. Let´s say 10% go to the poster to reward his curation efforts. The remaining 90% are payed into a pool account from which the original content creator can claim his reward after signing-up. Ideally, a post in that section triggers a notification bot that reaches out to the original content provider, e.g. via youtube, facebook etc.
As such a process is obviously not in place yet, please note that I will donate 100% of the earnings of this post in equal parts to the @curie and @robinhoodwhale initiatives.
Please let me know in the comments what you think about this proposal. Your feedback is much appreciated. Thank you!
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PS Regarding the video, I have my doubts that this kind of DNA analysis is actually possible due to an insufficient number of publicly available human genomes. Still, I like the message of the video very much :-)
It sounds like a nice ideal, but I think in practice it would quickly become unmanageable. I do not believe that the entire process could be automated and would eventually require at least a full-time and eventually several employees to manually deal with the accounts, requests for funds, and matching funds with creators.
Thanks a lot for commenting. I agree that the whole process will require some manual management. However, I would not underestimate the potential size of the economy that may arise from this. So hiring staff to manage doesn´t seem unrealistic to me per se.
Thanks again for stepping into the discussion, much appreciated!
I've been on FaceBook for a very long time before I found Steem. By way of comparison Facbook thrives on links. I'd say that it drives most of the discussion. Someone posts a link, perhaps makes a comment on it, and then a lot of people 'pile on' and have a discussion about it.
For some values of 'discussion'. The collective IQ of Facebook, as with any group, is inversely proportional to it's size. Face book is VERY large so...do the math.
That aside...I think that Steemit should most definitely encourage links.
Exactly, links are the fuel of facebook. And facebook doesn´t even share anything with the actual content creators. So a huge plus for Steemit.
On FaceBook YOU are the product.
Yes, and more and more fb users start realizing that.
That sounds like a good idea on the surface.
Thank you @pheonike. Glad you find it worth thinking about.
If a person could use there youtube account for verified Steemit account creation then we co7ld pay them for their youtube work.
(edited) Yes, that would be a great step and the same should be possible for verified fb users, too. Longterm, we will ideally get to the point where creators choose to publish on Steemit first! Thank you for your feedback!
Sounds like your complicating an already complicated process. I've over 2000+ posts and I'm still a bit lost on Steemit!!
Hi mindhunter. Which is the complication you need to deal with? Let me understand it :-)
Link-posting is obviously done already a lot on Steemit, yet there is no real community approval on how to deal with these kind of posts. Having a channel dedicated exclusively to link-posts may lower the barrier for many to actually contribute to the platform.
I agree with @neopatriarch that this extra layer may become unmanageable over time - the wallet screen still chills me enough!
I guess if there is a pool account that serves as the intermediary depository for link-post derived rewards, not much needs to be managed until someone claims his part of it. And to verify whether or not the right person makes the claim can be relatively straightforward if that user registered on Steemit via a youtube or fb account as mentioned by @phoenike.
Let's hope a whale takes notice if it can be done as simply as you say it can ;) Nice to talk with someone on a similar reputation level too :-)
We don't need a dna test for this.