Thanks for this update on the contribution score, @paulag. I'll be following the progress with much interest.
A comment you made on this thread caught my eye:
"One of the primary goals of Steem’s reward system is to produce the best discussions on the internet"
That is taken from the whitepaper. it takes more than just a good post for the best discussions to happen, people need to engage. These metrics try to find the people on steemit that are making the best discussion happen by looking at certain metrics.
YES!!! A rep score that highly reflects engagement as tracked for example by @abh12345's Engagement League, is what I'd love to see. A post, good or bad, has no life if others don't engage via comments to expand, explore and evolve the content presented in the post.
Interesting, contentious, funny, meaningful, heart-felt engagement via the comments on posts often go unseen and unappreciated on the wider Steem blockchain.
An engagement-type rep score would guide interested Steemians to more easily find a wide variety of discussions happening in the comments section when looking for 'good' content.
I have no idea how this would be captured tech-wise but I feel it would make a huge difference to finding, engaging with and valuing great comment content across Steemit.
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hay @angleacs - glad to see that you find this positive and can see the benefits. We all know good content is subjective. I think engagement is a sign of how much 'value' a post gives, and there are so many people trying hard to make steemit the best places for discussions, not only by posting. These people really make up a 'core' of steemit.