I think the problem with that is that it will mean a lot of people make armies of bots that upvote things to steal the reward pool, but without investing a single penny into the platform.
I also like the idea, but unless there is an identification verification to prevent fake accounts and stolen identities, then it would result in even more bad actors gaming the system.
Page views aren't good, because then that gives an incentive to make really good click bait, with nothing of substance in the article.
At the end of the day, any system that tries to reward users with decentralization is going to run up against creative problem solvers finding loopholes and games to get around the intention of the system.
Of course they should get verified, its common on all platforms. Bots should be also registered and there should be even captcha to verify users from time to time. If they are serious about making this platform about quality content and social interactions they will need to have lots of rules and regulations like youtube, reddit and other platforms. They should just focus on making less censorship and letting people speak their minds, everything has more sides to it usually and absolute truth kinda doesnt exist. Also content should be moderated to some extent, someone can upload porn not tag it nsfw and what happens then. They need like a round table when all people with platforms best interests in mind sit and discuss things and make plans for changes etc. They can add demonetize like on youtube but with clear rules. Lol this reminds me of that rick and morty episode of a purge when they start over and end up in the same place.
Users should only have one account and bots be banned. Obviously that's not going to happen as all whales without exception have several accounts and bots rapping the reward pool 24/7
No you should be able to make multiple accounts because its kinda different platform. Or they should atleast change some things. Since on reddit you have subreddits and thats a good thing, because here you would need to have account for each subrredit so therefore 1 person should be able to make multiple things that revolve around same topic (call them niche). They need atleast 1 more layer behind this platform to govern things, and when you build a whale, Whale should be only concerned with its topic of interest, whale should be like content manager. But the way i see it you would need to have layers of whales. So posts like this that are dealing with manipulation of a system should be like top tier problems and should be discussed in closed doors and should involve people that this affects on that level, should leave average joe away from it they shouldnt even be able to post that crap here. So you dont need to drag every fucking content creator into internal politics, firstly lots of people dont care they just want to create and work on their things, secondly not everyone is good at politics. Im not saying people should be like sheep but the longer authors spend making content like this or deal with this problems the less time they have to focus on new things that could benefit whole platform. This is a large topic i really hate writing things, since everyone has their opinion and just talking about it doesnt solve anything, unless someone acts on it. Money war is good here because Steemit on its own needs to burn money to make money since its designed that way, they probably dont care about it that much here since system kinda makes proof of concept that way. But as for content creation nothing happens. Mainly they need more structure to this platform or infrastructure whatever you call it that should promote authors and their work and focus on some kind of organic growth other than burning money to make money.
Identity theft and or other falsification will occur on a massive scale as people in third world countries would be able to make a few dollars just from making accounts and upvoting their own posts. A few dollars is a lot in some places.
There is a reason many sites have failed to come up with a way pay out to self-publishers. It is devilishly difficult to come up with a system that is fair and not gameable.