Morning @acidyo , it is not a rant in is a piece of insightful realism, that hits a nerve and pisses me off too! I agree totally with everything above so no need for me to cut and paste little bits of it.
I get pissed off that I put a lot of effort into my posts and sometimes get downvoted for no reason. My guru on here told me not to take it personally, it is done for "political reasons".
Also when I look at what a post of mine earns and I think "that's pretty good" then go to comments and might see maybe just a couple of comments posted, from users I engage with that racks me off to, total imbalance. I guess though, that killing the auto vote system ( which I do not use ), would be a death knell to the Hive? Could the @topcomment initiative maybe drive more engagement from people? I don't know it is above my pay scale, but I guess every little bit helps.
Also maybe it is lazy arsed authors that should be looked at, and like you say penalised, as you say this goontube cut and pasting malarkey is pointless bollocks.
At least we haven't sunk to the depths of fb yet " here is a picture of my dinner" 36 blue thumbs up " here is a picture of my dog licking his balls" 187 blue thumbs up!!
HNY 2025 onwards and upwards
You can't kill the autovote system without frantically increasing RC cost (this would only affect those pesky barely any stake autovoters so you wouldn't see 100+ votes on a post in the first minute with barely $0.1 rewards pending) or the other option would be to place some other fee on casting a vote which would also drain those smaller users, especially those casting 0.2% votes for no fucking reason since their accounts are so small they're never going to earn even 0.000001 hp even if we had that many decimals.
Maybe the solution is a combination of RC costs and the "optimal" 10 votes per day we have, like if you're casting 500 votes per day and you have less than 1000 HP stake it should cost you more RC than leaving 500 comments per day with same amount of stake - currently it's the other way around. Not sure, it's quite technical and I'm not the best to think about that but could make for a good post and discussion in the near future. There's been some discussion around those with stake purposely spamming the chain which causes bloat to witnesses who want to maintain the full ledger which is 160gb and growing at this point I believe. So imagine how much of that 160gb are these spammy tiny votes from accounts with no stake getting no returns but able to do it for free using free services like hive.vote, etc. It may not be a big issue now but if we start seeing 10-100x increase in users it'd mean the same increase in that activity as well.
This is far more complex than I could ever have imagined! Do I summarise?
We are fucked!? Damned if we do: Damned if we don't
That's the idea of this project indeed.
Try to reward people for engaging, also on posts where the author has a low stake.
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PS HNY to you too!
Diolch yn Fawr