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RE: Thoughts and alternative proposal on HF20
I was a user of tsū.com before they closed the door, but before they did close, they introduced a community system.
That made it, almost overnight, become a much better way of finding what you wanted to see.
Tsū was a lot like steemit, the monetary system was different, but essentially it worked like steemit in how users got paid for posting.
Before the community system most users found things by the tags associated with the posts.
Each community had a head moderator who essentially was paid a percentage of the value of all posts, they were allowed to have up to two deputy mods who got paid a percentage of the head moderator's income from the group.
This system worked great.
It couldn't have been completely awesome if tsu.com closed their doors. Do you know why they went under?
Lol, tsū was, unknown to general users, explained as an experiment when they all of a sudden closed their doors without notice.
Loads of tsū family here now.
But the Groups/Communities addition was like the days in the old West when the gov opened up new land to settlers, people stampeded for the "Owner" status of the group's that they wanted because the owner took 50% of all post income from the groups.
You were required to have a balance of $100 in your account before they would cut a cheque, that made a lot of people angry when they closed and didn't have enough in their account!
Pretty shady dealings really.
Interesting background. Thanks for providing info. 50% going to group owner was clearly the wrong number. But I could see concept working and being reasonable if it was something like 5%; as payoff for all the curation work that would be needed to be a good owner of each community.
No obvious reason why steemit.com would shut down in the short term. As long as there is a 9% or 10% inflation rate there will always be some type of rewards pool to distribute. And if confidence in platform grows, the open market price of STEEM could continue to rise which will attract continuing interest for new entrants.
STEEM On !!
Cheers Dave!