This post simply contains my views on the decision of the @Leofinance community to adopt the "linear curation curve." The announcement got me nodding my head till the last full stop. For me, this is a very good strategy that will favour everyone including the manual curators and quality content creators in the space. This new implementation equally has the power to increase the number of curation operations on the platform owing to the fact that you still get value for upvoting a publication at anytime regardly of how many persons upvoted same post before you.
On the other hand, good/ quality content creators will not be deprived of curation by a curator simply because the curator found his post many hours or days after it was being published.
Aside from the staking power, rewards gotten via curation has always been dependent on the time a curator upvoted a particular publication. This then made curation a thing of competition which was in turn not very good for the growth of the system. The time-factor on curation rewards brought about a level of inequality in curator's earning in that whoever upvotes first gets the higher rewards. It made some persons earn more than others though all were doing same thing.
Curation shouldn't have to be competitive and kudos to @Leofinance, it is the first community to correct this and it is hoped that mother HIVE and other communities would follow suit. Furthermore, the time-factor on curation rewards gave rise to what we know as auto-voting.
Auto-voting is a process where upvoting is being done by a programmed bot and not manually. The main reason many people resorted to using auto-vote is because it helps them to vote early on a published posts. Being that the earlier you upvote a post, the higher your curation rewards. Whereas auto-voting helped some curators get more rewards, it was detrimental to the system.
Auto-voting doesn't add value to the system as compared to manual voting; with it, a user doesn't even have to log on to the @leofinance or Hive platform, he doesn't have to open and read a post before voting, the bot just keeps carrying out the upvoting operation because it has been pre-programmed. Where's the value it brings other than giving a good returns to the investor?
On the other hand, manual curators who contribute to the community through their spending of time to read through a posts and then upvote get lower rewards could be because they arrived late on a particular publication. This equally affected content creators because some curators would shill their votes knowing there'll get little returns. However, the linear curation curve changes everything for the good of everyone. It eliminates the time-factor such that no one has an edge over the other.
The linear curation curve simply entails that whenever you upvote a post (regardless of how many persons have upvoted before you), your 50% curation reward is certain. Under this structure, your upvote is your upvote and manual curation gives same returns as auto-curation.
This turns curation on its head. Instead of being a game to see who can vote the fastest on content that will get curated later on, it turns curation into a tipping economy. 1 Upvote = 1 tip. The value of which is determined by your LEO POWER (LEO that you have staked in your Hive account). - @Leofinance
Quite impressive and welcomed, if you ask me.
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Yeah, auto-vote totally stifles user engagement. I would feel less inclined to post quality content or any content if I just thought a bot-farm would come in to upvote me since I wouldn't accept or feel that my work was really valued, just that people wanted to cash-in on my value without reading my post.
It would also lead me to devalue manual votes because I would suspect that people were auto-voting unless they actually commented.
Auto-voting should not cause you to reduce the quality of your post. That's a different ball game. Inasmuch as these suto-voters do not read posts, there are others who read. And you are seen by what you publish.
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Oh yeah, I know that practically, my mind just tries to tell me differently. It's just kind of weird to think that you can get upvoted automatically. All in all though, I am still loving the way the blockchain works, and I am totally looking forward to contributing more.
This is a very important thing! I understand the problems of upvoting on the last day and other stuff, but those things can be solved in another manner... And, as you said, it shouldn't be a competition which has a bigger %... I would like to see the competition who will upvote the best post...
Quality first! Great move by @Leofinance!
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This is Awesome Content, and it will be manually curated with an upvote of 65% from @thisisawesome (will be done today), and it will also be included in our Awesome Daily Curation report in category Awesome CTP Curation for more visibility.
The goal of this project is to "highlight Awesome Content, and growing the Hive ecosystem and the CTPtalk tribe by rewarding it".
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It's indeed a much expected and needed change Leofinance has brought to life.
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