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RE: Suggestion: Bonus Curation Rewards For Onboarding New Users to Steem
Great idea! I propose changing the full curation bonus to a so-called 'delayed' full curation bonus . After 3 months of the referred user signup, a full curation bonus from his/her posts for a specific time period (perhaps 4 weeks) could be activated. This is because after signup most users stay minnows, struggling to become dolphins. But after 3 months, good quality providers become minimum dolphins. This way the referring users are motivated to bring valuable bloggers.
I am speaking from experience: when I saw that at busy.org I got 10% of my referrals rewards, I was excited. Then I saw that was valid only for the first 30 days....and ahhhh ...what a minnow could do in 30 days...
Thanks for the suggestion - personally I feel that the system is already a bit over complicated for many people to want to use it (or understand it), so I would avoid any solution that adds complication that could be avoided. To accommodate your point about users typically not getting high rewards right away, my suggestion is to just extend the bonus time period to 3 months. That way, if I bring in a really high earning user, then I also get greatly rewarded, plus if I bring in low earning users, I will at least get something once they have settled in.
About the system being too complicated, as a minnow, couldn't agree more. :-)Regarding the extension of the bonus period to 3 months, that would be a good solution. Not too short(1 month), not too long (6 months +).This way we could avoid the MLM tendencies, but also the referrer has a chance to acquire some real earnings.