Is this the new normal or is this "action price" still adjusting?
We are still adjusting, it takes roughly 5 days to reach the equilibrium.
Is there in target number for the number of posts/comments a newbie can create within the 5 day recharge period?
No, as far as I know. The new RC system is more complex than just a linear juxtaposition on top of SP. It takes into account 6 different types of resources and tries to balance different types of activity. It will drastically limit spammers, though, as it discourages over-consumption, and it will encourage niche roles. An author is different from a curator and they use different resources. The RC system will try to "adjust" to these types of activities, as far as I understand from the documentation.
In my opinion, it will take more than the remaining 3 days until the equilibrium for the system to find a real balance. Probably between 2-4 weeks.
Wow!
Well thanks for the explanation. Watching closely. I hope that if it turns out that the adjustment over these next few weeks leaves new users pretty much unable to use the system, but accurately accounting for resource usage needed for their participation, we can implement some target number for these actions.
Maybe there needs to be a higher initial delegation. Maybe there needs to be progressive scaling of RC cost based on a person's SP, such that low SP users pay less for the same transactions, perhaps subsidized by high SP users, who will never utilize all their Mana.
However it is done, this is not going to work if new users wind up only being able to comment/post a few times per week, or even if it was a couple times a day, 5x as much as right now.
I understand your concerns and I agree with you there must be some sort of incentive for new users to use the blockchain. But let's keep in mind the benefits as well, the drastic limitation of spam being the most important. The blockchain state file is now at 200GB and it's increasing every day. There must be some sort of mechanism in place to prevent it growing just because some useless bots are posting shit every 20 seconds.
Absolutely agreed! My concern though has always been that I didn't see how to block out spammers without also blocking out newbies.
You know, this conversation could not have happened if you and I were both plankton.
I once was plankton and so were you.
Yes, and though our having some advantage for having started earlier is reasonable, this is too big an advantage! LOL
For once, the early worms are not getting the bird. Wink-wink :)