Ok, you got me with that last section.

Mind. Blown. 🤯

I could see the disharmony, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it, and now I realise it’s because I’m not a coder, so I don’t have an insight into that side of things. So thanks for that illumination.

So here’s what I’m trying to wrap my head around... (and a little context to preface).

My last post I explored my discomfort with promoting downvoting, or at least making it have no RC cost. I’m not claiming this mechanism won’t work, I just don’t know if it will. I do however think there is something in the 50/50 split (maybe even increasing curating %), because I think positive reinforcement is more effective from a behavioural change perspective.

Are we all in agreement that the 💩posts and spam-n-scam are the problem with reward pool share? That’s my understanding at least.

If curators have greater incentive to reward “better quality content”, then it means less of the crap, more of the good stuff.

(Although I still think there is an unsolvable problem with the subjective nature of ‘quality’)

From a technical perspective.... can witnesses/devs run the numbers to see what will work? By this I mean, can (e.g.) the last 7 days of posts be run through a model with the different systems and see what happens? Is that possible, is that what y’all are doing anyway?

Like I mentioned in my last post, people really do have different value-systems. I don’t like photos of your dinner, but you don’t like self-absorbed naval-gazing. While you happily upvote photos of food, I’ll upvote long-winded boring stories that get me thinking about life, the universe, and everything. How do we define ‘quality’?

Content creators just have to hope that there are curators who share the same ideas and value what they do... which is what I think the value of Communities/Tribes is.

Looking at this platform (PALnet) as an example... what’s to stop 💩posts from starting to use the tag, thus ‘polluting’?

I’m asking this question because myself and a couple of others have been thinking and discussing creating a Community/Tribe with own frontend and token (like this), and how do we realistically maintain the integrity and quality of what is rewarded?