POB aims to have the fairest token distribution possible. @proofofbrainio is the only account that currently has any stake so it will decide what posts receive the first distributions of POB. Replies to the whitepaper and any posts have already been upvoted.
I would like to proffer a suggestion. However, it might require too much development time to be put into place quickly.
For these initial days (and weeks, perhaps), it might be best if the @proofofbrainio account consistently awarded its upvotes via an auto-voting bot that uses the following (or similar) protocol:
- Vote on posts toward the end of the voting period, to allow for maximum interaction by curators first.
- Target those posts that have received the most manual votes, providing a higher vote percentage to those posts that received the most individual curation votes.
In actuality, it might be best to have an 'auto vote-recommendation' bot that applies the above (or similar) rules, then recommends which posts the @proofofbrainio account should vote on and a recommended vote percentage (but requires the real person overseeing @proofofbrainio to 'okay' each vote). This would enable the @proofofbrainio account holder to distribute POB tokens (during the early days) in a manner that best reflects the wishes of the curators, but provides a human check against any competing 'bots' that might try to game this particular setup.
Of course, this could all be done quietly (behind the scenes) without any formal announcement or acknowledgement, to make it more difficult for folks to 'game' the system (it's much harder to game a system when you don't know the underlying data-generating process upon which the system is operating).
I appreciate the suggestions, but in my mind, human subjectivity is just part of the equation and I don't necessarily want to get rid of it. I am voting on anything that I think anyone could find interesting at all to limit my subjectivity, but I am basically going to vote the same way I think would be good for the platform to vote when more people have stake. I think PoB works best when people are voting for stuff that they like, just because they like it.
Yes, I fully understand that. No way is going to be perfect. It's going to take up a lot of your time these first few days and weeks, though!
Totally cool concept!
Yeah, I'm definitely going to take some kind of a break after the first payouts.