RE: [Free Raffle] Carl Mark Force IV ex-DEA Agent's Business Card - The DEA agent who extorted and sold government information to Ross Ulbricht! (Rare Silk Road Memorabilia)
"The problem is it all draws from the common reward pool; manipulating votes means you are pulling rewards away from other posts that are being voted on merit. If each sub had its own pool that would be different."
I don't see it as manipulating a vote and the post obviously has merit if it's getting traffic from the site and outside sources plus votes.
Do you have a source for the terms that says giving away items in a raffle style would be manipulative or is it mostly your opinion?
As discussed in PM, the issue of reward abuse is decided by community consensus, not any sort of explicit rules (who would enforce them on a blockchain anyway?). The major stakeholders decide what is abusive and voluntarily flag/downvote to discourage it. We get no rewards for downvoting and our only incentive is to maximize the success of the system (and therefore the value of our investment). This is in fact an explicit part of the design that is discussed in the whitepaper.
The problem is it all draws from the common reward pool; manipulating votes means you are pulling rewards away from other posts that are being voted on merit. If each sub had its own pool that would be different.
"The problem is it all draws from the common reward pool; manipulating votes means you are pulling rewards away from other posts that are being voted on merit. If each sub had its own pool that would be different."
I don't see it as manipulating a vote and the post obviously has merit if it's getting traffic from the site and outside sources plus votes.
Do you have a source for the terms that says giving away items in a raffle style would be manipulative or is it mostly your opinion?
As discussed in PM, the issue of reward abuse is decided by community consensus, not any sort of explicit rules (who would enforce them on a blockchain anyway?). The major stakeholders decide what is abusive and voluntarily flag/downvote to discourage it. We get no rewards for downvoting and our only incentive is to maximize the success of the system (and therefore the value of our investment). This is in fact an explicit part of the design that is discussed in the whitepaper.
Ah I wasn't aware that raffles weren't allowed.
I just just trying to do something fun for the user base here that made their vote count. It's something you can't really go out and buy at a store!
Bummer, I didn't know that either. Maybe one day Steem will have an auction system independent of the voting system.
There is a marketplace being developed. I don't know if it will have auction features but that certainly wouldn't surprise me.
We both learned something!
It would be nice to have like a Raffle sub or something!
The problem is it all draws from the common reward pool; manipulating votes means you are pulling rewards away from other posts that are being voted on merit. If each sub had its own pool that would be different.
Would you mind point that out to me in the terms and services?
When I search "raffle" & "Buying votes" on that page nothing comes up.