All of these changes seem good to me except this:
Discussion Rewards
Starting July 4th, 25% of the total payouts allocated to a top-level post will be split among all comments proportional to the votes the comments receive.
This will lead to low-quality commenting I believe. I said it before but comments and discussion is much more valuable when it's natural rather than incentivized.
At least when someone comments it should take a minimum vote from the commenter de-facto (auto-vote)
like it will happen for the post authors after all (auto-voting) and for the same reasons...
maybe reduce the voting power to 1% default for comments but let it be editable to 5% max....
or even better introduce a 5 "star" voting system option... (only for advanced users?)
here?I agree. I think comments should be incentivized separately from posts, instead of being some percentage of the parent post. Does anybody know why we cannot have two separate funds: one for posts and another one for comments, as @liondani proposed
I think we are about to make a similar mistake as was commonplace in BitShares: ideas not properly explained. Dan is brillant with his concepts but not patient enough to explain every little detail. As a result, I am not able to make an informed decision.
A workaround for the author is to write a reply and ask for up-votes to that reply.
That's just silly though. Plus 25% is a gigantic cut for comments. I don't like it at all.