A Reward System Proposal That Will Make Everybody Stay in the Platform and Will Invite More Signups
Blog, Vote and Get Paid
This is what everybody who signed up in the platform are expecting and we could not blame them if majority of them are leaving after making few posts.
Every blogger, writer, and author in the community were already doing good in submitting their content in various social media networks and blogging sites. Upon knowing Steemit sources, friends, colleagues, ads, news and other media sources, they automatically made themselves available for the platform especially that upon reaching the home page, they saw posts with thousands of rewards for just a few hours after posting.
These things excite all of them, telling themselves that this could be what we we've been waiting for, being rewarded by producing good quality contents.
Requirement for Upvotes
What these authors didn't know is that they have to be a friend or chosen by the so-called whales or being in their network, they have to be a guru, they have to be famous to earn good rewards in the community. Even in the absence of this knowledge, they started to post good quality contents hoping that they will be satisfied like what they are seeing in various authors.
I've been in the platform since 1st week of July 2016 and I'm online everyday to check out what's in the platform for me. But since I have problem with creating articles, I just spent my time reading. I have read so many articles in the platform, I've heard all the things that happened.
Currently, the platform has around 100K signup users (forgive me if I'm wrong) and only 30% of it are active.
What is Happening?
Based on my observation, lots of real writers came and signup for the community as a social media platform that will give rewards to those active members by posting and curating good quality contents. After few days and weeks of posting, joining conversation in chat rooms, making comments, these writers felt bored because their articles are not getting enough rewards. There not few, there are thousands of them, some of them are living and if this trend will continue, what will be left behind in the platform are those friend of the whales and those who belong in their network.
Everybody here in the platform is expecting for the rewards. Those who said that we don't need good rewards because they are enjoying sharing their contents and letting the world know about something they knew and that they are happy with it because they are also learning so many things in the platform are just fooling themselves, they are just pretending.
My Proposal
Everybody here came for money and that's the reality of the platform, it's undeniable. I would like to suggest a system that would make everybody in the Steemit community happy.
What if every time an article is posted, an instant reward will be given to that post right after posting it based on the author's reputation. For instance, if the author has a reputation of 60, then his post will receive an instant rewards of 60 SBD and if somebody will vote for the article, it will be treated as an additional rewards.
In this manner, authors will stop hunting whale's vote, because their attention will be focus on increasing their reputation because by doing so, they are also increasing their rewards.
We don't have to worry about plagiarism anymore because everybody will take good care of their reputation because their rewards depends on it. If in any case, an author is guilty of plagiarism, he will then be punish immediately by lowering his reputation back to (1)one. If he's going to leave because of it, it's not steemit's fault but his.
With this kind of reward system in the platform, people will not be moving away from the community anymore because they can have what they wanted, and the expected number of users will increase drastically in no time, which will increase the life of the community.