I don't know how the math would work, but I suspect a whale splitting their SP into hundreds of 8k accounts could probably earn more by upvoting sock puppet accounts than from the interest they would get by being a mod.
The counter to that is that hopefully the other mods would be able to catch that and do their jobs as moderators.
Great! Hopefully we can get the whole community behind the idea :)
Yes that's the idea. Moderators would downvote content that's overpaid. It doesn't really matter if it was upvoted by many sockpuppets, if the content is shitty payout will go down.
We would have a system were post would go through a lot more scrutiny, which will increase the quality of content selection.
Another incentive for whales to not split their account is that by letting other users vote they will increase the demand for steem and so the value of their account.
And the "evil whales" running the split accounts would astroturf the downvoted content, and say look at poor XXX hes getting downvoted by the big bad moderator. Dan is such a troll. Then dozens of fake voters would say "oh noes! we're being oppressed" And the moderators would back off.
If TPTB had the spine to downvote overvalued content, the system would work fine as is.
The whales (most of them) might agree to this increased scrutiny in principle, but they won't put it into practice.
If the whales were willing to downvote shitty, overpaid content they would be doing so now.
lot of influence, but I'll push for it as much as I can :)Count me in on team @snowflake for this one! I don't have a
I hope you don't mind, but I wrote a modified / TLDR version:
@snowflake's really interesting proposal - Turn whales into moderators and give dolphins all the voting power (TLDR Version)
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This has not been enough of an incentive for many of them to curate responsibly in the past, and there is no reason to believe it will in the future.