RE: What if steemit users were rewarded according to their 'attention span'? Opening a quantity vs. quality debate.
Thought-provoking! So many proposals, it's like a swarm attack. I disagree with most of them, but some will still slip through.
I don't buy the equivalence of time spent consuming and quality. Is a game walkthrough video on Youtube worth 100 paintings?
Rewarding comments means an incentive to post inane comments when you have nothing to say. I do think that more people should upvote comments they like.
I'm sure that views could easily be simulated by a bot.
Do we need curation rewards at all? Isn't using your voting power its own reward?
Resteeming a lot of posts annoys me, although I happily follow Tumblr accounts that only reblog and never post anything original. I'm not sure why. Maybe because Tumblr is bigger and blogs are more specialized.
Suppose that Steem became as big as Facebook. Wouldn't we neglect an important part of culture if posting memes, jokes, art or photographs was discouraged?
Thank you very much @edb!! Strong arguments, there is no doubt.
One question: what is 'reward' in a 'social' environment for you actually?
That's a rather abstract question... Here I was talking about financial rewards, and influence at #4.
Reputation is another kind of reward; both the formal number and people's opinion of a user. I wouldn't call average post quality or feeling part of a community an individual reward; that's a subjective common good, not a property of an individual user.
I didn´t understand very well the second paragraph of your comment ;)
But anyway... I think our big challenge is that the product we are dealing with has a lot of emotional values. Content is always the result of a creative process. People feel personally touched by the success or failure of their outcomes. So I think a purely rational and algorithm-driven rewarding system won´t ever fulfill their needs.
I agree. I'm happy that financial incentives make us more polite than Redditors, but not everything has to be based on algorithms and money.