RE: Proposal for options for a partial slider for sub 500SP accounts
It is a good suggestion. There are several people though that are opposed to new users having the vote slider right away, because it adds 'cognitive load'. There is a lot of feedback from new users that the platform is extremely complicated. While it is easy to argue that a vote slider is not that complicated, there are people that feel the complexity outweighs the cost. I know you and I are both technically minded, so the thought of something like that adding difficulty is almost foreign, but I do see the point of view from the people that argue it.
If you can get consensus for it and would be willing to submit a PR for it, it would be worth running by Sneak. I suspect you will probably be unable to get consensus for it though, because of the people in the camp opposed to it.
Right on!
The key component to how this works is raising the minimum vote size, which thereby limits the total number of posts still, while giving the new users 'training wheels' instead of the current 'wheelchair' as I have described it.
The obstacles that getting consensus on this faces are the reason for #project-smackdown because it will get EVERYONE talking about it, which means resolution will come sooner.
The change would be to the great benefit of the community as a whole, in further accelerating the rate of adoption and thereby, raising the value of Steem in the economy which benefits us early adopters, as well as making the platform increasingly interesting to people and expanding the potential use cases. See my latest post about my prior work on Dawn and how I think this could be used to facilitate further expansion of the Steem Community's power to make an impact on the world.
maybe just lowering the threshold to 250, currently voting seems both pointless and confusing.
There is a pull request to lower it to 125. We'll see if it gets approved.
Hi @timcliff ,
You may want to hear from me because I come from the sub 500 SP community and I am not able to upvote content as generously as the above 500 SP slider holder people can.
I invite you to read our concerns in the post and commnets about the frustrations for minnows after the HF 19! and see for yourself how much we are suffering.
I request you to support this cause please. Thank you.
I do support lowering the threshold for the vote slider. I actually submitted a pull request right after HF 19 to lower the threshold from 500 to 125.
https://steemit.com/voting/@timcliff/condenser-pull-request-submitted-minnow-vote-slider-vote-slider-threshold-update-to-125-sp
Thank you so much for all your concern and support. I will vote you for witness if I haven't done already.
Cool, thanks :)