RE: Programming Diary #15: Voting suggestions and author incentives
It occurs to me that front ends like steemit.com, upvu.org, blog.nutbox.io, etc., could reduce the cognitive effort by ...
Long term, the only way the ecosystem can really succeed is by user growth, so I think the frontends should be optimized for normies, not people who care about things like optimizing their voting power usage. Vote percentage is already way more overhead than a "like" on conventional social media.
Post payout value: Not included yet, but what I have in mind is to halve the vote if the payout goes above $1 and halve it again if the payout value goes above $10. As with the author's reputation, this is about curation rewards.
You may want to factor the "convergent linear" aspect of the reward mechanism in, since it's nonlinear in this region.
Thanks for the reply!
Agreed. I wouldn't want the web sites to take away the option for setting a custom voting percentage, but I think it would be useful for web sites to let their users turn it on and off. What I envision is that - as a user - I could turn off the setting, then my choice would just be [vote/don't vote], and the web site would handle the percentage choices invisibly. It actually makes it easier for both normies and higher stakes voters (assuming the percentage selection is on target).
Yeah, there is definitely space for optimization. It might be better to look at post values in terms of STEEM, instead of SBD, too. That way it (hopefully) wouldn't need to be adjusted as the price of STEEM changes.
Ah, now I understand your intentions :-)
The frontend should suggest to the user which value they should vote with.
This would go in the direction of making it easy for the user and one click would be enough for the "Like".
In principle, I'm always in favour of automation, but I'm rather "old-fashioned" in this respect. Of course you can give the user the choice of switching on and off, but I personally wouldn't want to switch it on.
However, it would be interesting if the suggestion appeared in the vote bar, but I could still change it.
If I think about it briefly, I come up with the following aspects when determining the vote value (in order):
And: Exceptions prove the rule. :-))