RE: Success porn: A Motivational Scam
This is an amazingly well-written post! I'm shocked that after 5 hours this has only earned less than $5.
67 votes but only 41 eye-balls... that's the problem! People think they have done their job by auto-voting and are missing out on this well-written article. They don't read and don't know it deserves more. That is a real shame.
I'm still gathering numbers and trying to determine if it would be worthy to have all up-votes of equal value. I know there will be resistance to that idea, and I may find out that the numbers don't make it worth considering, but I need to convince myself by doing the math. I suspect that you would have received a larger chunk of the pie for 67 votes, but I have not done the math yet.
Edit to add the math: $605,200 (daily reward pool) / 2,200,000 (votes per day) = $0.275/vote
So $0.275 X 67 votes = $18.43 as opposed to under $5.
Hmmm... might be something to consider.
I don't know how to find the figures used, so I am relying on the accuracy of those who are reporting these statistics.
I wish my figuring was as good as yours.
I am unsure if an equal value would work as it would take incentive away from the investors to stay and would lead to a lot of self voting and voting rings.
The system now is far from perfect but it means that those with the highest stake are more willing to put money where it will have an impact to increase their own value. It also has a problem of self voting of course but it is seems more the sheer numbers of new accounts that self vote to get some return, even though they haven't really invested yet.
This is at 91 views and 84 votes. One of my highest views yet I think and with a dodgy curation botnet of between 30 and 40 bots following it, It means that at least half the people that viewed it didn't think it was so amazing.
One thing to also bear in mind is that some people share the posts on other media channels and I do not think those views get factored into the numbers. I don't think that is an issue for me. :)
Actually, I was thinking the fixed vote would reduce self-voting (or at least make it less of an issue as far as abuse goes) but yea, I see the other side of it too. I don't know what would be best, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it and at least look at possibilities.
Absolutely, talking about it and testing different options is likely the only way an adequate solution will come. This goes for everything in life.
yeah there was a autobot commenting the same thing, a while back, but that's not how the math is made, 40 of the votes could be 1% or whatever autovotes, plus 40 views is astronomical, I've seen trending posts and lots of them that have <10 views while rewards are ~50usd's and votes are around 80+ ..