Facebook originally started off as a Hot or Not site where they rated pictures of Harvard students side by side. Keeping it classy as always Zuckerberg but, he might have been onto something.
What I was wondering about is this line in the Hivemind list.
- voting/polls (democratic or burn/send to vote)
Do you see where I might go with this?
As you know, I am a massive fan of bidbots. Huge fan. The biggest. Everyone says so....
People see a post upvoted to the moon but they know that most of that value has been paid for in SBD. This gives pause to flag it as the poster could incur a very large loss. What people tend to forget however is that all of that value came out of the public pool.
When all of it comes out of the pool, the number one reason for flagging comes into play.
- Disagreement on rewards
One can't factor in the cost of ordering the bots because that goes to the bot owners, not into the pool itself. That means the disagreement of rewards must be the post held up against the value of that post. Not, the post held up against the value minus cost of votes.
The reason is that from a community perspective, the entire amount has been removed from the pool available for all other posts, yet, none of those other posts have access to any of that SBD used to buy it. This means that regardless of the cost of ordering, the post needs to be rewarded on what the community thinks it is worth, not on what the bidder votes it to. Currently though, there is no real way to effectively do this.
There is stigma with flagging, especially the small accounts flagging a post that is sitting in the trending section. So, what if we Zuckerberg bidbot voted posts?
Worth it or Not?
An app could list bidbot voted posts in the last 12 hours before their payout and users could then see the posts, order them based on tags or content, read them and decide if a joke post, meme or some random selfie is worth over 800 dollars. perhaps with a dedicated app for it, it might take away the stigma.
Remember, they could also upvote that post even more too. It doesn't have to be only flagging. Perhaps all of those small users who are currently getting negative returns on their bids will actually get some eyes on their work as they have wanted and those eyes will boost their posts into the positive if they are worthy.
Of course, it could go a bit further though couldn't it? The community poll function could potentially be used to create a trail of upvotes or flags on individual posts.
The bidbot post gets advertised and a poll is created to get public opinion on whether the post is indeed Worth it or Not? The poll results come in.
Some potential ideas:
All votes/flags are cast into the app. If more people think it is worth it, the value will actually increase but, if many think it isn't then, it will decrease. This would of course not be a blind vote/flag on the actual post.
There could be a flagging bot that after tallying the votes, would apply a flag that would take way all profits for the poster and a little extra as punishment. That way, the actual flaggers would remain anonymous. People don't like anonymous flags but the blockchain allows bidbots and anonymous is okay too.
It could be compared to a similar article by a different author, perhaps one who is known for producing decent content consistently. That way people could see what the difference in payout is between the two and decide what is actually worth it. If a decent piece is worth 5 yet the bidbot one has 500 on it, that is 100 times more coming out of the pool. That is 100 authors who could have potentially written a quality piece for 5 dollars, but, the money was just not available in the pool for such things.
It could be used by
to easily find the spam posts that have ordered bidbots and
and her team could just click through and flag as their heart desires. Or by curation projects on their slow days.
This isn't about flagging though, this is about community governance and incentivizing higher quality posts that are worth the value they take from the pool. Of course, this could be used for any post but all of the other posts are supported somewhat organically by accounts, not rewarded by the author themselves.
Supposedly, men add on average 1 centimeter to their penis size when giving a 'self-reported' measurement for statistical purposes. No surprises there. What do they say their post is actually worth when there are no scientific studies involved then?
Now, another feature that could supplement this is:
- modlists: (e.g. spam, abuse, bad taste)
Imagine that? Worth it or Not? could become a community tool to create automated blacklists for the bots, limitations on upvote level, temporary bans, retractions of votes even, automated flags for abuse; Think of the possibilities.
And then:
- rich statistics
We could all see how all of it is playing out in the numbers.
There are going to be so many options with communities, so many possibilities. I wonder where it will all lead and whether I will be able to give enough ideas that some Devs will create a few apps to test the waters. After all, it should be easier then.
I wish I could program... I am unfortunately one of those people who struggles to set the clock on the microwave.
This post is likely to get 5 dollars. Worth it or not? Dunno, but a bidbot won't be called on it. I have my own stake here that I use but, I prefer the community decide how big it can actually get ... for scientific purposes of course.
Taraz
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