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RE: We need your feedback! How should we classify accounts on Steem?
- I've like the Orca name as it kind of sounds "pre whale" to me. Shark, though a super awesome animal, does have a negative connotation with a lot of people and so that label may be twisted into, "They are out to eat everyone. They must have devoured others to get where they are." etc.
- Makes sense, but categorizing based on VESTs and doing all the USD conversions for those VESTs should ultimately be the same thing, right? I still like the USD approach though as it makes it more concrete.
- I like the idea of factoring in delegations. Most people are interested in the voting influence, and that's all about net SP after delegations. That said, I also see the value in knowing someone is "a whale" even if they are delegating out to a bunch of other people. Within 7 days, they could go right back to being a "real" whale. Maybe you could use "effective" labels? As in, they are an "effective" dolphin but an "actual" whale (using an example where they delegated out a big chunk of their SP.
Thanks @lukestokes.
Ok, good feedback. Valid point on a shark "eating people" but an orca is already a "killer whale". Are they out to kill whales? Sounds scary. The community so far has overwhelmingly gone for shark (mostly b/c they don't know what orca is so I think we're going to introduce sharks.
Yeah, Vests and SP are the same effectively, but nobody knows what Vests are unless you dev on the platform. The USD approach was just to help ppl have examples of the current vote amount in $ for current fish type. It will, of course, change due to a fluctuating Steem price.
For now, we don't really call out a specific users and their fish category. It's going to be used for a more top level classification. To see what "type" of account has/is voting, commenting, etc fo both globally and inside each tag community. Something similar to this.
Here an example. Numbers are not accurate and it's just a mockup for design purposes, but should get the idea across.