Great post and fantastic ideas! I've been thinking a lot about tags and how steemit handles them and these changes would make a huge impact on serving the best content to the right people.
One question for you, regarding the following bullet:
- Each curator can only green-tag up to 3 tags per article. Curation rewards are split between the three, so it may be wiser to green-tag just one tag that very accurately describes the article, than going for three random ones.
Wouldn't you want to gather as much information from curators as possible, instead of incentivizing "strategic" voting?
For example, a post about Pokemon GO would be relevant content for the "pokemongo" "pokemon" and "gaming" tags, at minimum. But the most relevant tag is "pokemongo" so all the savvy users would upvote only that tag, leaving the content unavailable to users who haven't expressed explicit interest in "pokemongo" but might be interested based on their interest in "pokemon" and "gaming".
Sorry if I missed something that counteracts this incentivized behavior, looking forward to your reply. Thanks again, it was hard to find anything I didn't immediately agree with. :)
Thanks and great question.
I did not go into detail on this point, but the way I see it, the purpose of Green-tagging is to sort of highlight the most relevant few of an author's original tags. So all the original tags are still there, but curators decide which ones they think are most relevant. For some articles, that might be just one tag that almost everyone will green-tag. Remember that the green-tagging influences rank based on a custom per-user filter (if they chose to set it up) on SteemIt. It doesn't cancel out or overpower the original tags from the author, no matter how many green-tags some tag gets, the article should still be searchable using the original tags...
For some articles, like in your pokemon example, it might actually pay more to green-tag three different tags: since other curators are likely going to feel these are the most relevant too, and your curation reward is split between the 3 but ends up being greater overall, thanks to high numbers of green-tagging on all three tags you picked.
I think we have to limit the number of green-tags because if we don't, then bots will blindly upvote everything on everything, in an effort to grab curation rewards unfairly.