Blockchain bitcointalk
Not sure how many steemians are btctalk members, or how much they are impacted by the recent system changes i. Just wish to give my two cents. But I enjoy the environment quite a bit, whether it's blockchain bitcointalk chance to see discussions on new icos, views on altcoin movements, or do a lil' bit of bounties for some coffee money yes I do bounties too, mostly for projects blockchain bitcointalk I agree with, and I honestly see nothing wrong with that, as long as no excessive shilling is conducted.
I also honestly think that the new Merit system has its merits pun intended ; won't go too much into it here since there's many other posts discussing the pros and cons of the new system. But observationally, the 'velocity' of smerit movements is too slow to be healthy for the system as a whole.
Under the current blockchain bitcointalk, smerits are almost blockchain bitcointalk 'currency' of sorts by blockchain bitcointalk. They have 'value' attributed to them by their influence over the act of 'ranking up', and while disallowed, there are still black markets for merit trading I suspect. The realisation that smerits have value leads members to excessively hoard them for 'future use', since blockchain bitcointalk as a normal user, I have no certainty whatsoever over my future stream of 'merit' income, even if i strive to improve the quality of blockchain bitcointalk posts.
While theymos obviously considered this problem and came up with the solution of future merit sources, I respectfully wish to point out that this alone is likely insufficient.
To a certain extent, this is akin to the blockchain bitcointalk of trusted nodes in blockchain design, and hence have the same associated issues. Trusted nodes with blockchain bitcointalk much influence run the risk of corrupting the system; too few trusted nodes run the risk of insufficient 'processing' power to fulfill the platforms' usual smerit generation needs. On this note I would like to suggest an additional complementary system of sorts, where say every member has a certain weekly quota of X 'like' credits, which will expire at the end of the week if unused and reallocated the next again.
Because of the i expiration and ii weekly quota refresh tagged to such credits, members are much less likely to hoard them. Different member tiers could possibly be allocated different amounts of like credits, if higher-ranked members are presumably believed to be 'better' judges of content, on average.
Now when I see a decent post, 'decent' in the sense that I enjoyed the content, whether it was a random comment that made me laugh, some tip i found useful, etc. I can award the post some 'like' points instead. Blockchain bitcointalk points can then be convertible to merits using a sufficiently high ratio, which can be slowly calibrated over time to ensure robustness of the overall rank system.
To avoid abuse e. For comments or views, pls. No intention of copying the idea. The suggestion came in part from the fact blockchain bitcointalk I read chinese novels, and platforms like qidian. I'm relatively new to btctalk, having only been a member for a few months. To the community and the forum platform I give my sincere thanks. Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.