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RE: July wildlife in southeastern Pennsylvania: Mammals and small birds

in American Steem • 7 days ago

Thanks for the recognition!

I don't want to praise my own writing, but I definitely agree that it would be great to level-up Steem's article quality. IMO, it's mostly about incentives. I hope some other developers will start exploring longer-term incentive structures like the ones that Thoth users.

If authors believe that valuable content will generate longer-term reward streams, I think they'll start creating more of it.

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     6 days ago 

    Could the Community Curator accounts help with this...

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        Well, I feel awkward lobbying for my own project, but since you asked... Here's where I would probably start if I were directing the community curators...

        (Background)

        1. The thoth.test account is currently seeking out posts from authors who have been active within about 950 days. I have to balance how long it takes to run vs. trying not to direct too many rewards to people who are never coming back, so the number of days changes from time to time.
        2. It also tries not to direct rewards to people who are actively posting on other chains.
        3. Lots of other filtering is in place w.r.t. the author, the content, the engagement, and the strength of the author's network, but points 1 & 2 are probably the two main points that you would care about.
        4. There are a small number of exceptions to those points for some people who I personally followed in the past, but the community curators could exercise their own discretion if those posts happen to get discovered.

        (Plan)

        1. Community curators would be permitted to vote for one of the thoth.test posts or replies daily/weekly/etc..
          • Personally, I would probably have them vote on one of Thoth's replies that focuses rewards to a single author, not the top-level post that scatters them around to five different authors. That could probably be argued either way, though.
        2. Importantly, curation reports should tag the authors that gained supported retroactively and the community curators could also click through and reply to the original post. The point is just to inform authors and the rest of the community that increased incentives are available for posts with lasting value.

        (Alternate Plan) Steemit could setup and run its own Thoth account and take full control of the filtering and the beneficiary split among null, authors, delegators, and Steemit - itself (or even create multiple accounts doing independent reports in English, German, and Spanish). This would also have the benefit of increasing the number of authors who get reached each day.

        If I were running a company like Tron/Steemit, I'd actually go with the alternate plan, fork it, and make it into a professional grade product that uses hivemind instead of the public API endpoints, but I know that you may be constrained by access to development resources. Of course, you could start with the first one and switch to the second later if it works out. They're not mutually exclusive.

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          Do you have any way of checking whether the older selected authors actually claim their rewards?

          And even more interestingly, whether it encourages any of the currently inactive authors to become active again?

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              The information is all available, so reports can be written, but no, I haven't done it yet. Eventually, I'll probably write something, but right now I don't think there would be much to measure. At today's prices I don't think any single account has received enough rewards to move the needle very far.

              Skimming this list, I believe that most of the top-20 author accounts are currently active, at least with voting, and even the top author has only collected ~200 STEEM in beneficiary rewards over the course of more than a year. Any accounts beyond those would have received less than ~74 STEEM.

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              At current prices, my main goals are to "plant seeds" for future win-backs, help with user retention, and give existing users a little more reason to spend the time it takes to write a post with lasting value.

              Anecdotally, I can say that at least 3 idle accounts were reactivated for long enough to claim rewards and write "thank you" replies, but I don't think they did much else (yet?).

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