I'm looking forward to some analysis of what has happened since HF19. I know it affected my own voting behavior for a few days. I don't vote for my own comments, except once since HF19 to raise a comment's visibility. I think we should have to spend to raise the visibility of our own comments, just like we have the post promotion button. The multiple-account issue has been with Steemit always, for posts or comments. And the coordinated voting campaigns, too.
It will be interesting to see how far down the reward pool sinks. It's like the reverse issue of HF18, where it took over a month for the pool to fill up. The time after HF18 seemed to knit people together because it was about just getting through the month. This HF seems more difficult because there's no improvement in sight, just a continual decline of the pool to who knows where -- even as our own votes are worth more. It's more of a hoarding mentality than a sharing mentality.
I'm just going back to flinging upvotes out all over the place - there is so much good content that should be rewarded. My voting power will go way down, but it will still be higher than it was before HF19.
Yep pretty much any tech solution that suggests limiting what an account can do to their own account is easily circumvented just my having more than one account.
It's hard to code-block human ingenuity! ; )
Yep. Yet it is surprising how often people suggest things as a solution that all it requires is another account. Thus, why I said it might slow down the problem, but wouldn't eliminate it.
I ultimately think going with a 2nd reward pool just for comments might be the way to go. Then these activities won't hurt posts so bad, but the comment pool might end up being pretty worthless and cutthroat.
One thing I like about Steemit is the willingness of most folks to experiment. With such a complicated system, involving people with different motives and ways of engaging with each other, it's hard to predict what any change will actually produce. Quick testing and adjustment is a difficult thing to pull off with so many parts, but I've been impressed with what Steemit's been able to do. I hope they do some sort of adjustment, but active comments are key to keeping people on the site -- and to initiating enough transactions to help demonstrate the blockchain capabilities.
Yeah comments should definitely stay. Yet people abusing the comments by posting a lot of them and self-upvoting them all is draining the entire pool and will be impacting the payouts for posts as well. It seems like segregating them would keep either from being able to adversely effect the others.
I like comments a lot. I up vote a lot of comments. I keep my % at around 1% at the moment so I can up vote a lot of them, but I still do. I like to encourage discussion.
I've been able to keep my % at 15% for comments, with very little impact on my voting power -- and I fling those comment upvotes around like there is no tomorrow.
That hasn't worked for me. :)