Fixing DMania - A Compromise "To Leave Both Parties Equally Unsatis...

As usual, one of the great topics on Steemit, both across the platform and plastered across the top of Trending, is reward allocation. The topic of the day is Dmania.

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Explanation forthcoming.

https://steemit.com/steem/@berniesanders/dmania-is-bad-for-steem-time-to-take-this-shit-down

As Bernie notes, dmania has delegations from some of the absolute largest holders of Steem, including Ned the CEO, so it merits looking at closely. Perhaps there is a solution that will resolve the legitimate concerns about post quality while reconciling the (arguably regrettable) fact that meme'ing may in fact be "what the people want."

If you're not familiar with Hive account@dmania, I'll give you the summary from someone who has never used it nor read their FAQ firsthand. They pay you to post memes. An attempt is made to reward original and better memes first, and possibly, only. If your post is rewarded, you will relinquish some of your reward back to Dmania as a beneficiary.

You can post a lot of memes if you choose, 5 (or possibly more) per day. This means they have a lot to sift through. Far more than is practical for humans to be doing without some form of pay (which, I suppose, could hypothetically come from the beneficiary split.)

What's the problem? Well, MarkyMark said it in fewer words than I possibly could:

https://steemit.com/meme/@themarkymark/meme

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Here it is all tiny, anyway.

In a few words: plagiarism and general shit-posting.

I have an idea that could certainly help.

When discussing this idea with the venerable Hive account@meno , we realized very few of these "Dmania miners" (as I'm generously calling them) actually have any investment in the Steem platform in their accounts. In other words, they are extractors of value from the network, not providers - in more ways than one. Meno lamented the fact that at least if they had some of their own SP (on average), they'd be funding the network they are pulling rewards from. I daresay this would be almost like a DPOS coin paying you your own staking rewards for meming!

Well, why not requires users who receive reward votes from Dmania to have certain SP thresholds powered up? Though not directly intended as an "abuser-filter", it will do the job of filtering out the vast majority of "extractionary" abuse from individual who provide no value (content- or investor-wise) to the Steem ecosystem.

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I tried to keep this in a format that would speak to most Memers' attention spans.

I'm not suggestions this is a complete solution. It doesn't make plagiarism OK, nor prevent other forms of abuse such as multi-accounting to get around posting limits. Plagiarism is best handled with an easy reverse-image search, as noted by several of the posters I have cited above.

As I alluded to in my title, this is meant to be an easy-to-implement stopgap solution that will provide multiple positive benefits and maximal impact with minimal difficulty to implement. I would say it substantially increases the value of the dmania service overall, ensuring that only real contributors to the Steem network can benefit. It creates another little fringe benefit to holding Steem, and that is good for everyone who matters on this network - holders of Steem.

It won't be perfect, but perhaps it can make both sides equally unsatisfied.

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