OCDB goes manual - Detailed

in #ocd5 years ago

Curation of the "whitelist"

The OCDB whitelist consists of authors that have been curated by OCD in the past 2+ years. It's filled with a lot of great quality authors who were producing original content, were undervalued and missed. Many long gone hopefully to return, many still active but decided not to buy votes (huge respect to those) while others bought votes, maximised their returns whereby some were more farmy than others - we hope you use what you earned through us well and in a #newsteem fashion.

The time has come to remove the bot and place humans behind the votes again. Humans who may be judgemental, biased but in the end will be healthier for the platform than automated bots that may have pressured authors to post more often and degrading their content.

The whitelist will still exist but in the form of following the authors. The votes won't be as consistent but you will know that whoever voted on your post read your content and curated it manually. We are going to focus on quality where votes can range from 1% to 100% and frequency can range from daily to never. We are not going to attempt maximizing curation rewards in any form, the 5 minute rule is no where enough to read and judge a post of the upvote it should receive. What people call curation nowadays has shifted from its real meaning. We expect a lot of front-running accounts to appear and that's okay with us - if they become smarter and adjust their votes depending on the authors we believe provide quality content then even better as in the end the authors will make more rewards.

Authors in the whitelist will not be able to affect the curation in any other way than writing more quality content. Of course quality is subjective and some curators may be biased about certain content - but it's still better than nothing.

Curation of onboarded content creators

At least half of OCDB's voting power (once there are more content creators we have invited) will be used to curate the posts of these content creators. Additionally we will be incentivizing these content creators to invite their fanbase and curate their fans comments on their content creators. This is to incentivize interaction and show the strengths of Steem where both creators and consumers can earn rewards by being active. This will also be a good step in the direction for communities and SMT's.

Our curation here will also vary depending on the activity of the content creators and growing evolvement with Steem. We have seen some onboarded creators absolutely fascinated with the platform and wanting to learn more and spending more and more time on Steem. This will without saying be rewarded more than content creators who will only cross-post and not do anything else over time.

We will be curating crossposting of these content creators as well but not as highly as original Steem content. The voting weights will also vary on the amount of invited content creators currently active. If they are just starting out, we will be careful not to "spoil" them and disincentivize further activity later when the rewards go down which is something that has plagued Steem in the past a lot thus we don't want to make the same mistakes there. We want to highlight all the other advantages of Steem such as immutability, censorship resistence and less power to advertisers having an effect on your earnings.

The fees

The fees will go to curators doing the work by reading and spreading out the rewards over a growing "whitelist/follow-list". These posts will also be checked for plagiarism every now and then and with more eyes on these posts it will be easier to over time catch plagiarisers and readers can report these on our discord in the existing #ocdb-abusereport. Real curation takes time and we feel a 10% fee is appropriate.

The other fees (5%) will go to funding the tipping pool. After a talk with the developers of steemtipper we found out that a big reason to not tip was because many didn't want to get rid of their Steem. Which is understandable considering how similar upvoting is and Steem basically makes tipping obsolete. It is a great tool to raise the attention of Steem on other platforms and get content creators interested to at least create an account on Steem and check it out if they want to claim their tip. The tipping pool and activity will also be overviewed and only a select amount of onboarders will be able to use it.

How the tipping system will work:

Onboarder X finds a great original content post/drawing/video/song/poem on Reddit or Twitter. Onboarder X comments on the content and adds a tip command at the end of the comment with a Steem amount. Afterwards the bot contacts the content creator about how to claim the tip and we will use our claimed accounts to get the creator an account instantly so they can withdraw the Steem that was tipped to them. If they never reply and/or create a Steem account the tip will be returned to the pool. If the Steem in the tipping pool never ends up going anywhere it will be burned.

Additional notes

Onboarding will be a big focus for us as we see it helping the Steem ecosystem in many ways. Depending on the amount of "invite attempts" we have in the current onboarding system we may from time to time vote on the Onboarding Compilation posts of OCD to incentivize the onboarders. This can be seen as a one time referral reward where attempts also get rewarded instead of just the successful onboardings. We will be careful here not to hog the trending page all too often as that would be unfair to other authors and projects. It is something we are working out right now on how to do better in the future with the way we fund our activity and effort.

With the #newsteem changes we would have done well continuing the way we were operating as our whitelist is of curated users and could have been finetuned over time to mitigate any sort of abuse or farming. We know though that this is not proof of brain and with the curve it would not only be unfair to the authors but also to the delegators earning a lot more passive income than curators. OCDB was created to mitigate the abuse of bid bots and the earnings of their owners and delegators. It existed over a year and hopefully did more good than what would have been done with the stake if it had been in just another bid bot. Leaving bid bots profitable and with a lot of stake past HF will not do Steem any good long term and we feel this is the right time to turn around and start to effectively use proof of brain again.

Guidance

As I mentioned above, we will use half of OCDB's VP to reward users we onboard. We want these users to understand how the Steem Proof of Brain posting/voting behaviour works and how to create content that is worth a vote, a resteem and a follow. The good thing about new users is that they can be introduced to #newsteem directly, focusing on bringing up the positive aspects of and on the Steem Ecosystem, making them valuable users for the platform, both as content creators and as possible project members/founders of their own ideas with the upcoming communities and SMT's.

To achieve this, we have set up a discord channel on the OCD server, specifically to keep in touch with these recently onboarded users, where they can ask questions, bounce ideas, network with other new Steemians and receive advice/tips from some of the most experienced OCD members.

By doing this, we aim to coach and then graduate succesful, committed and long term thinking Steemians who will promote Steem on their mainstream social media accounts from a believer and early adopter's point of view, reccommending their favorite Dapp or frontend andpromoting the adoption of our blockchain and coin to their follower base.

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I think you should remove your vote. @ocd @ocdb
There are also other downvotes I think you should remove as well.
I'm thankful there is steemleo.com though. Please don't buy any Leo tokens. lol

I think people should downvote these posts.
https://steemit.com/@ocd

You might also find this post interesting.
https://steemit.com/downvotes/@acidyo/why-you-may-be-getting-downvoted

They dont care man they want steem down to below 1 penny maybe they are trying to drive steem price down to buy more/ eitehr way they dont care about steem when they downvote proposals that only help and get organic @booster upvotes

Do you even know who "they" are. Like nobody even seems to know who @freedom is even though that account helps run the show. I don't even know who the S.S is that runs the stupid bot.

I downvoted their post.

This post has received a 15.27 % upvote from @boomerang.

I really like the idea of a reward pool for onboarding creators. Maybe you could create a proposal for additional funding for it?

We considered it and will get back to it once it's flowing depending on the need for the funds to use for tipping. For now we're using 5% of the delegators, starting off with the 551 STEEM already existing on @ocdbfund.

@acidyo your @ocdb downvoted my proposal that is only helping steem get on scatter and your shitty system downvoted it when i never paid for a @booster upvote it was organic and you downvotyed it why? because your system sucks and is killing steem thats why lol you downvoters are bullies

How does that creator get seen?

To be clear, whitelisted accounts sending STEEM/SBD to @ocdb with a URL in the memo line is pinin’ for the fjords?

The bids are no longer accepted by OCDB :)

Awesome! A light of hope! Thanks!

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The time has come to remove the bot and place humans behind the votes again. Humans who may be judgemental, biased but in the end will be healthier for the platform than automated bots that may have pressured authors to post more often and degrading their content.

100% this! The pressure to try and post daily when hardly any stake was curating forced people who hadn't attracted a certain 'high stake' following to either burn out, or lower time spent. Some people had the energy, or mental fortitude, to write/create elaborate posts with the uncertainty of any type of reasonable attention for their time and effort, but the majority didn't.

Any increase in manual activity from the curation guilds is massive positive news for steem. Gr8 news 👍🙂

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Great move on your part! All bid bots should become curation projects. I particularly liked the tipping idea when great content is found outside the platform. That'll create incentives for outsiders to become Steemians.

Yeah, we had a nice trial run onboarding outsiders on our own and while our onboarding team is growing and we get back to it, the tipping addition will improve the success rate even more!

IIRC out of 18 who responded, 6-7 created an account and started posting and only 2 have stopped (1 contacted us and had a particular random reason for it that I don't want to write down on the chain xD)

Great results. Care to share aspects of your sales pitch?

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It's all the advantages of Steem without mentioning/focusing on the rewards. :)

I participated on a site called Writeon which, sadly has since gone away. Writers posted material and the only reward was that other writers read it and commented. It improved my editing skills. Yes, I would love to profit by writing, but social media sites proves that connecting with others is a driving force for many individuals.

I should've known. What kind of people did you approach?

Artists mostly, we still haven't made the compilation post of onboarded users but I've resteemed some of their posts. We'll get this kickstarted very soon!

I like this move. Good for Steem in the long run. Now I need to get writing more 😁 and I have just the story to work on.

Good move @ocdb.

Thanks! Go write! :D

Since the #newsteem started I pasted very clear it on my mind, something is working well and going for a new direction @acidyo and all your efforts is showing everyday..

Also I started posting more often than usually I was doing that..

I understood how important is to care about this ecosystem, and why I stopped my investment using bots.

I continue invest my money getting some Steems one in a while. As a small investors I know we can help a little more.

I’m not in your “whitelist” @ocd but I would like to be in sometime, I think my content is good, it is not perfect but I think worth it to review...

The best for you all and have a great day...!!!

I've noticed these changes a few days ago and was super impressed. Thanks to all the curators who are putting in the effort to find and reward actual value-adding content. It's honestly really exciting!

Hey! Haven't seen your name around in some time, welcome back? :)

Not quite sure if I understood it all, but I think I get the gist! So keep writing and see what happens!

Let me know if you have any questions. :)