Sounds good.
I propose a campaign to all Steemians, to reach as much as possible of our community members regarding the curation curves, with a post that explains in non technical words what the new situation is. Otherwise I predict a whole lot of confusion regarding at least the "Increase Vote Impact" feature!
EDIT: after a good morning of thinking, I like to add this to the increase of vote power...
My take after thinking this through this morning:
- I don't understand why we have to increase vote power.
- 40 votes per day is not a lot when voting for comments.
- I predict that we will see less votes for comments which is bad for driving engagement.
- It is also ok not to use all vote power each day; I really do not understand the fuss around not using all the vote power daily; BTW in our setup it doesn't even have to be daily, users can vote until they have 0% power and then it takes 5 (?) days to get back to 100%
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- The mechanisms to distribute some of the vote power to others is not easy for the 'mass' in Steemit to distribute this.
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- I also predict that we see first a lot of posts debating the fact that many users will be out of vote power, since many users are accustomed to vote with 100% to posts, the new 100% will be a lot more powerful. At first users will think: WTF my vote is worth X more. Then they start posting positive things about their increase of vote power. Than they see a drop in vote value, and maybe, maybe, maybe they then start realising their is something wrong with their vote power, but more likely they start posting a lot about what they see (ie low rewards impact) but don't have an answer for.
The UI could by default vote with 25%, but additionally add a "supervote" or similar. It's not about reducing the amount of votes one has, you can always extend that number by voting lower (until a certain threshold at 1% of course)
I understand, but for some reason it does feel different to cast votes with 25%, or to receive votes with 25%. Also I think the slider should be removed and replaced with preset percentages. The slider is flexible, but it takes time to set it at a particular percentage. I just think the result of the 10 votes per day 100% full power will reduce comment voting and as a result will reduce engagement. But for what I understand, the chooses are made.
The thing is, I don't know if. when and how the UI will adapt. There are so many things to improve here, let's not get started on that ;)
Well, more than 1 year in beta and still not solved the basics, which is performance, sensible and workable rewarding, no tools for increase of post visibility for most of the users, a UI that seems to be something we saw when WWW was just launched to the general public...Yes a lot to do, I know, but question is: will this take another year or two? Sorry that I'm this upfront, first of all I'm Dutch and we are straight to point, and secondly, competition is coming, so it is in the interest of us the community as well as Steemit Inc, to hurry up.