Hardfork 21
Hello Steemians, we have been hard at work adding the changes to Hardfork 21 necessary to add a long term funding mechanism to the Steem Proposal System (a/k/a SteemDAO) as well as the Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP). We are happy to announce that we have completed that work and released the code for Hardfork 21 so that public testing may commence.
Testnet
The testnet will hardfork this Thursday at 1pm EDT. At that time, witnesses and developers will be able to begin testing all of the changes included in this release. This will have no impact on regular Steem users on sites like steemit.com.
SMTs
Now that the release candidate for HF21 is out, our blockchain team has turned their attention to continuing development of the Smart Media Tokens protocol!
Rewards API
One of the additions to HF21 involves the Rewards Curve which is used to determine how much Steem a given post should receive from the Rewards Pool based on the votes it has earned and the stake (i.e. Steem Power) backing those votes. The release candidate changes the curve from a linear curve to what a convergent linear curve. @vandeberg (Senior Blockchain Engineer at Steemit) explained the convergent linear curve in this post.
In order to demonstrate the effects of the proposed changes, we created a Rewards API which enables us to simulate the rewards payout with different curves and parameters. We are also releasing this API to the public so that anyone can use it to approximate payouts on the chain at any particular time.
The above chart demonstrates 3 different constants fed into the convergent linear rewards curve and their effects on comment payouts. As shown in the charts, 2e12 approaches our current linear rewards at roughly 16 STEEM, which is why we feel it will provide a meaningful and balanced change to Steem’s economic distribution.
Communities
@roadscape is working on Communities. There are two aspects to Communities: 1. the backend work in Hivemind, and 2. the frontend work on steemit.com (Social Condenser). For the backend work, he has been working with community members to develop a Hivemind-based protocol specification that meets the needs of as many Steem developers as possible, not just Steemit Inc. For the frontend work, he has begun the process of combing through the user interface assets that were already developed, evaluating whether the code is still useful, and looking for those components which are reusable across approaches.
Financial Report
Our Managing Director, @elipowell, is currently preparing a financial report that will provide some transparency into our costs (primarily AWS costs) and the revenue we have been able to generate through advertising, so be sure to follow her account (@elipowell) if you’re interested in gaining deeper insight into how Steemit Inc. is operating as a company.
The Steemit Team
This should really be called "The Proposal That Will Have No Impact On Economic Improvement"
i undelegated my steem power, as i will curate steem posts :D
i Waited for this to come apx 2 years, i belive that steem is important because the human imput,
Nothing matters as long as boots dictate the top 10 posts, aslong as not humans are voting we are lost.
Reading off that 2e12 contingent linear rewards curve...
Under HF20 a post receiving $1 in upvotes would give the author $0.75.
Under HF21:
I make this: $1 * 90% * (1 - 40%) * 50% = 0.27 under HF21
So broadly: $0.75 under HF20 vs $0.27 under HF21, a reduction of about two-thirds for smaller payouts.
Have I understood that correctly?
Math checks out. Nothing like making use of bid-bots to get above $6.40 completely mandatory for every post.
But don't forget future traf will spread around thousands of tiny whale-votes instead of upvoting himself 10x daily... that has to count for something, right?
I think that there will be plenty of innovation to get around the CLRC issues for smaller payouts and comments. These will mostly rely on aggregation techniques, or as you suggest, various forms of vote-selling.
It's a pain though. The CLRC will just bring additional complexity in return for (as far as I'm concerned) no obvious tangible benefit. The "divisible account" issue could be solved through data analysis and downvotes instead.
Downvotes are still unincentivized and rely on altruism and volunteer work for effort. It is important not to allow that to be attacked by ramping up the necessary effort. Keeping rewards concentrated even if it happens via aggregation techniques as you suggest is necessary to manage the workload required for downvotes. If those aggregation techniques are used in an exploitative manner, they can much more easily be countered with downvotes than 100k or 500k comments scattered all over the place.
upvoted due to troll downvote, not that i necessarily agree with your comment, just wanted that out there.
Yep, and a comment receiving $0.08 because some 4000 SP minnow upvotes it at 100%, that now gets you $0.06 will get you $0.00 after HF21 because we still have dust level cut off at 0.02. Great way to kill social interaction on the platform.
The CLRC introduces a huge market inefficiency. If the 4000SP is delegated to a large account that can aggregate it with other SP then the 4000SP retains close to its $0.08 vote value, e.g. through circular voting / vote selling etc.
A user with 4000SP will be much better off selling those $0.08 upvotes and using the liquid proceeds for social interaction and engagement. I expect innovations to happen pretty quickly under HF21 to facilitate this approach. But it's untidy and introduces another layer of complexity that Steem really does not need.
I really wonder, with that shitty non-scaling convergent linear reward curve in place, whatt continued justification can there be to maintain the dust level treshold on 0.02 ? Move the bugger to 0.001, or at least move it to 0.006 so the same level of influence needed today to rise above dust level stays intact when HF21 hits. HF21 will screw over smaller accounts and hinder platform growth badly enough without the dust level threshold.
The dust threshold has more to do with added processing costs at the blockchain level than anything else. Every payout is a significantly expensive operation in terms of resources so there is a reasonable cutoff below which the costs are deemed to high to justify.
That's okay. People sending tips or subscribing for premium benefits or boosting each others content or whatever (as well as earning specialized Steem Engine or SMTs tokens via specific projects and communities) does not have the exploitability and other challenges of a common pool. It probably scales better in many ways.
It's disaster.
It's certainly a very significant change for lower earning authors and smaller SP holders. Both groups are likely to reconsider how they interact on the platform.
With RC limited for newbies, the reward curve too is getting a lot harder. Tsk
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I remember when I started and was only earning a few cents per post or comment. It takes time to get anything moving here. I'm really unconvinced that hitting new users so hard makes sense.
Indeed it takes time sir @miniature-tiger.
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The RC situation will likely improve somewhat once this is implemented because farming via small comment rewards (some of which already does happen now) will likely stop. I don't know if it will make a huge difference but it will make some difference.
It just feels like this is going to be an utter disaster.
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The SPS is an important change (although hopefully it could still be funded differently). And from the EIP the downvotes is a worthwhile experiment. There are potential toxicity issues but it's the one change that is likely to significantly move the dial on behaviour. It should be possible to clean up trending at the very least.
50/50 could increase manual curation but there are other avenues that will still offer greater economic incentive so the behavioural impact there is hard to call. It would be interesting to see which orcas / whales are committing to pulling delegations and moving to manual curation to get a feel for the potential upside.
The CLRC seems to add very little benefit even when considered as part of an overall package. It also adds a large market inefficiency which will encourage users to work around the system, to the benefit of middlemen. And when combined with the other changes the impact on new accounts / small earners will be huge. That's the part I'd like to see pulled from the HF.
How would it work if you get larger votes?
Losing 2/3 of my rewards looks scary. It most certanly makes creating content i do less worth it.
As mentioned many times before, the key thing of EIP is in
It's change of economic model that, simplifying it to something like "this post will get x instead of y" basing on a shift in rewards is wrong, because it doesn't assume shift in behavior (which should change because of shift of incentives).
Currently, user without SP could take advantage of bit bots, go to trending, gain reputation all that while having negative cost (i.e. earning on that), because selling SP to bit bots is just the easiest way to earn. With 50/50 it will no longer be that simple, because you could earn with your own SP by voting for good content as much as self voting or selling SP to bit bots.
I expect you gtg to start liking music and upvoting me if i lose 50% of my upvotes because of EIP. haha
I just know this seems like i have to look forward to reduced rewards and if that is the case i will turn into Durins Bane and not lose this time around. :D
I will smote your ruins upon the mountainside. Or something like that. haha
True. However for most users the chances of a large account coming along and upvoting their post will remain small, even if the shift in incentives does change behaviour. As such it's useful to understand how their post payout would change, as a "pre-behavioural" starting point.
I think that downvotes will be the change that stops the majority of the bid-bot issues. This is worth the experiment.
Large accounts currently earn around 21% of vote value in curation under 25/75, so this will probable double to around 42% of vote value under 50/50. It's still a long way off the close-to-100% of vote value that could be earned by circular voting or higher rewards from vote selling etc. It's a step in the right direction but it will be interesting to see how it actually changes behaviour. Economically, the incentives still don't align towards manual voting.
The CLRC seems to add little value, but again hammers small earning accounts / new accounts as well as comment engagement. The combination impact of the HF21 changes on such small earners is very large. This could be mitigated to some extent by removing the CLRC change from HF21.
There is more to it than that. An enormous portion of the reward pool is being milked out by self-voting and vote selling. Even a partial counter of that will increase the value paid out in STEEM per vshare. That also offsets the lower vshares per rshares at the low level of the curve resulting in higher rate of STEEM payout for those fewer vshares at the low end, even if no large stakeholder comes along and votes.
There are too many moving parts to do a simple calculation of payout for a particular vote assuming all else is equal and expect that to be remotely valid. It isn't.
It's true that significant use of downvotes on bad actors would cause an upscaling of rewards on all other content. It's something I should have added into my estimates. However the impact of the SPS / 50/50 and CLRC all act in the opposite direction and those impacts will dominate heavily for small earning posts.
Here I would respectfully disagree. Most of the proposed changes have clear and measurable impacts and getting an initial assessment prior to behavioural changes is useful and a pretty solid starting point. People can then judge how they think behaviour will change those figures.
We can respectfully agree to disagree. A large portion of (in fact nearly the entirety of) the intent of this is to significantly change behavior. So I don't think that an assessment prior to behavioral changes is a solid starting point in the sense of being a good estimate of the outcomes. It literally can be a 'starting point' in the sense that one can start there and then make large adjustments to get from there to a good estimate, which is what I am pointing out.
It is also quite possible IMO that EIP is a complete failure in the sense that there aren't major behavioral changes, but that's somewhat of a different claim to make.
You keep on joining the others in supporting downvotes, as if the downvoters were enrolled from the most altruistic and genuine Steemit posters.
In truth?
Most of them downvote where they can, without caring who they damage or why. I've seen many posters who have their own YT or blog page outside of Steemit, who provide their articles here so as to widen their coverage...but then the 'nasties' come after them, downvoting them to invisibility...and even their comments show how vicious and evil-minded they are - just check those on this comment page and you'll see what I mean.
Steemit is handing over power to the most evil of those here....and that will bring about success for us?
How sad that even those with good intentions keep themselves blinkered.
Of the three changes in the EIP the free downvotes allocation is by far the most powerful and the only one that really has the potential to move the dial on behaviour significantly.
I would agree that there is the potential for issues, in particular an increase in toxicity and account targeting, as well as problems with cheap purchased downvotes, and I would have liked to have seen a lot more work on how such issues could be worked around.
But something does need to change. The economy of the content side of Steem is broken. Downvotes are worth the experiment in my view.
"because selling SP to bit bots is just the easiest way to earn. With 50/50 it will no longer be that simple", You are wrong, making quality content is best way to earn. This is simply communism taken to the next level, take from the real content creators. This will only piss off the true content creators, you can't build a functional Blockchain on sand, where no investments are in content creators and all the power is in random stake holders
In practice there will be more downvotes as there will be a downvoting pool which means less money to bad actors and more money for legit ones. Also bidbots will be less profitable. And the 50/50 curation split means it's now much more worth to curate content than before. So people should move away from bidbots and get back to normal curations.
Ultimately if everything goes well the space should improve a lot and your earnings with it. Would you rather earn 10 steem worth 0.40 cents or 4 steem worth 2$ ?
In the end the value of the coin in terms of market cap will have to be backed up by the value of the content platform, and quite frankly, without somehow onboarding top content creators who now reside on ad revenue sharing platforms, that value isn't going to be all that high. In fact the EIP in its current form is more likely to work against onboarding than for it.
New accounts are going to get screwed over badly by the EIP, what means you will need to be out of your mind even if earning just $20 or $30 a month on ad revenue sharing platforms to move to STEEM after HF21. That's not good, and on the long term that is more likely to push STEEM doen to 0.04 than to keep it at 0.40 or help it grow to 4.00.
While I agree with you on the earning sides, I don't think it will push people away as we'll see a much more sane environment where new users can actually thrive and not be like "most of the sp is in bidbot so I'm not earning anything"
But most of the EIP in fact favours growth of the bid bot economy. Just run a little simulation with a few weeks of old data. The narrative and the actual incentives created by the EIP do t actually match. That is, not unless there is a major shift in how the community considers flagging bid bot users indiscriminately.
Have a look at this poll and it's results to get a grasp of the general reluctance towards using flags (that way).
That method is completely invalid since the entire purpose is to change behavior.
But will Steem increase in price because of this?
Steem is 70 in market cap and not many people care about it or know about it.
If nothing changes creators just lose rewards. That is what i fear. :(
I know i could stand on top my head and play violin upside down hanging by my legs from ceiling and i wouldnt get more votes. (haha that is some circus act)
Why think anyone outside steem will notice what we changed and decide to invest?
The reduction from the SPS (10%) and the 50/50 (33%) combine to 40% when taken together. This will be the base reduction applying to all posts before taking the CLRC into account.
For the CLRC, if your post earns more than a certain amount (16 Steem, i.e. $6.40 - according to the figure in the original post, although I'm still to run the figures on this) then you will be hitting linear and 40% will be the reduction. If you earn more than this break-even level then you will get a slight raise (i.e. less than a 40% reduction), as the reductions made by the CLRC on small value posts will end up being spread over larger value posts.
Better Blockchains that are 100% focused on content creators will be out in 1-2 years ;)
SEC cracking down hard, good luck with liquidity when binance shuts down in sept for USA .
If this is what is actually being proposed, then I would reject this hard fork. There is other existing inflation from which funding can be reallocated for the SPS.
But reward pool is the most natural source of it. Currently to fund a project you need to make posts that gets you rewards, that's pretty gives much same effect but it takes from a source that's abused the most.
I would much rather redirect some of the inflation from "SP interest" and then eliminate the rest of it rather than pull it all from content rewards. There's more than enough tokens there to cover SPS funding and "SP interest" is an absolute joke, both conceptually and economically.
We can reduce overall inflation (positive for perception and price action), fund the SPS (positive for development), and not adversely affect the content rewards pool (positive/neutral for creators and curators) all at the same time. Why would we not do that?
This was heavily discussed, investors have much more at stake than authors, so it makes sense not to touch that.
Edit : I realize that I should write a much longer comment explaining my views but I don't have the time right now.
The “interest” is stupid and makes zero economic sense when paid with inflation. If “investors” and the witnesses deciding on these protocol changes can’t figure that out, then they’re idiots.
As discussed elsewhere it has the effect of allocating the other (real) inflation between powered-up and non-powered-up investors such that powered up investors pay a bit less and non-powered up investors pay a bit more.
It has an economic effect. We could argue whether that effect is desirable or not. I would probably be in favor of simply eliminating it, but not in shifting it out to 'real' inflation, which would have the effect of increasing the latter.
Redirecting from SP interest ends up increasing overall effective inflation. In reality, the only effect of SP interest is to allocate the other inflation costs between powered-up and non-powered-up investors.
It's kind of unfortunate that SP interest aka vesting rewards constantly ends up being described as a portion of inflation (including in the steemitblog post pie charts) because its function is really quite differently from the others.
I also agree with gtg that the content pool and SPS pool are natural equivalents. They both involve making a tranasction to the blockchain asking stakeholders to vote to pay you. The only difference is the particulars of the voting and payout rules. You could actually look at SPS proposals as being a type of post.
If you have understood correctly then we are fucked up mate. Those small payouts you are talking about are what...less than 1$? Everything less than 3$...maybe less than 5$?
Who will be affected most?
Mediocre, and shitpost producers who post 10x / day, feeding themselves mostly from bid bots.
I truly hope you are right. I'm looking at all the Minnow and Red Fish crew. Are they going to still want to post anymore? This new curve does not seem to be good for them at all.
Is everyone now going to focus on curation only, and the post level is going to reduce by 80%? it's going to be different, that's for sure.
In order to focus on curation there’s got to be content...and most of the content is being produced by the small accounts. I am not so sure that they will be willing to post so often anymore...This is a massacre for small accounts.
If the real purpose of this HF is to fight self voters and bid bot abusers only then how about the implementation of a mechanism that allows maximum 1 bid bot per post? And how about a couple of free downvotes for everyone so that we can fight those abusers?
Am I the only one around who thinks that these curves are not good at all ?
64% and 54% cut respectively is a major reduction. Massive...
Yes, I get this feeling too. Is it going to be approved? From what I gather it is by vote but I feel this change it a little radical...
The bid bot economy is only going to grow larger as a result of these measures. Passive stake holders will switch from self voting to delegating to bid bots and other false curation services. Because of the 50/50 split, the price for bid bot usage will drop without a drop in ROI for bid bot owners, so the money being pumped around will end up supporting more bid bot SP. Small accounts will need to resort to bid bots even more just for reaching dust level, but most will want to aim for that magic 16.000 if they want some growth, so trending will end up a bigger mess than it is now.
I think that the reduction is approximately:
Although clearly these are a combination of the three reduction impacts (SPS, CLRC, 50/50) not just the CLRC.
In my view it shifts the balance of the content side of Steem away from being a social network and towards being a blogging platform. Users who currently gain lots of small payouts, i.e. the engagers and social networkers, will be most affected, as well as new users trying to get a foothold on the platform.
So instead of doing the exact opposite, we are trying what exactly?To hammer the payouts of those who earn pennies and discourage all those which we have desperately been waiting to join us for so long?...maybe we are doing things wrong....? Just saying.
fun days are ahead.
could we please just test it fast and get it over it, so i don't read about it any more and just be happy with my 10-20 cents.
Unfortunately, the comment section under this post is - again - another 'great' example for the damaging effect of flag wars on STEEM. What a devastating impression (potential) newbies (and investors) will have when reading all that?
I think there should be an elected committee with lots of delegated SP (for example from Steemit, Inc.) to be able to discuss, decide about and counter abusive flags if necessary. Only then - in addition - a downvote pool made sense in my opinion.
Yep.
I hope these changes are for the best, we really need to accelerate progress immediately or else we will lose our first movers advantage
Multiple competing social media platforms now provide cryptocurrency 'tips'. We are already being outcompeted due to the failure of extant and former devs to implement rational code that encourages capital gains, and have instead encouraged extractive profiteering.
We have lost the first mover advantage, and are facing existential loss of users. Absent preparations to reverse these changes should they prove to worsen the price, market cap, and user retention of Steem, real risk of the platform being abandoned for more functional platforms is being undertaken.
I have been a strong booster of Steem since my advent here. Unless code that implements sound investment principles becomes operational, this experiment will have failed. Massive powerdowns are ongoing, and I believe that this is being done to extract the remnant of value left in Steem that EIP will make happen faster, so that those powering down in advance will be able to sell before the price crashes.
Events will prove me wrong, or prove me right. I didn't come here for tokens, but for censorship resistance. This comment will be flagged by a censor, and is likely to be self-voted to profit the censor thereby, and further is unlikely to be nominally downvoted to prevent that from being profitable because of the direct written threat of retaliation by the censor.
Do consider these real facts when they are effected as I predict. Consider why I am able to predict these things, and that my previous and repeated comments have included functional mechanisms to prevent the end of Steem by implementing sound investing principles. Investing isn't rocket science, and common sense is all that is necessary to grasp how capital gains work.
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Lol, we said that two years ago when they forced this debacle on us.
The whales that have recouped their investments lose nothing by steem going to pennies.
Stinc has their millions and are having a hard time finding a fuck to give.
We wouldn't be having this problem any other way.
Once the hunger was gone, it was all over but the getting fat.
My only question at this point is: what are the specific, measurable, and timely goalposts by which we can judge whether the EIP has performed the black magic to make everything shiny that its proponents claim, and are we prepared to commit to giving up on it when it inevitably fails them?
It's pretty clear by now that this is going to have to be tried and fail dramatically before anyone thinks about doing anything actually productive, and I just hope someone's thinking about how to identify when that failure has happened.
#sbi-skip
Yes exactly. We need some defined goals so we know when this has failed. Downvote wars that drive users away? More people powering down than they are currently? Less new users coming aboard? What are the metrics? We likely can't just use the price of steem because it will probably ride a random crypto wide pump at some point.
If they had run some simple simulations with a few weeks of data, this would be crystal clear for everyone. The EIP is going to create incentives that favor the bid bot economy.
I think there are a few simple fixes possible for this part:
There are other issues with the EIP, that make it very likely to backfire even worse. The other type of backfire isn't that easy to simulate or measure after the fact though as it involves new accounts, platform growth and onboarding.
It is really interesting how Steemit believes it can grow its economy while not adressing inflation in any way and while not adressing the fact that STEEM is losing the battle for top content creators. For a real EIP we desperately need usefull features that burn STEEM and we need STEEM to truly compete with add revenue platforms and pull in those top content creators and their follower base from other platforms.
The EIP is going to backfire in more ways than one. The bid bot economy growth clearly being the most predictable and visible. Lets hope that lacking proper simulations (they wouldn't have gone through with the EIP in its current form if they had actually simulated the effects on the bid bot economy), they at least set evaluation parameters for success and failure for the EIP, so we can look forward to a HF22 in a few months that either reverts or fixes the current EIP implementation.
Uhm, there is no one here who also understands Spanish?
Pft dudes! just click on this green text 'spanish' link above to find out a pretty insightful video inside of what was meant as a jolly Carnival post three months ago. And you all will have a pretty close idea about how EIP will perform.
PS. Don't worry!! if you don't speak spanish, there are also subtitles in english & portuguese to get the sobering spanks quite right. };)
@trafalgar is probably the best one to answer this or perhaps he can point to some existing posts to answer it.
I hope to see some detailed posts about how the EIP will actually impact users. Most people don't understand hypothetical curves.
Take a few 'actual' accounts at certain levels of Steem Power (50SP / 500SP / 5000 SP etc) and show what they received from the pool in for example the month of May under HF20 and what they would've earned if in that same month of May HF21 was running. Both in author as in curation rewards - see who is going to be the big winners and the big losers here, and if we want/need these people to be the big winners and losers.
I know it will be way more complex than that and some behaviour will change due to HF21 so the numbers will be different, but we have to start somewhere - or have I missed posts that are already working through real-life examples/impact on users?
nah, drop it let it explode and apologize about how they didn't consider the impact later. :)
Oh shit, sorry, of course we should do that - I'm so naive.
It's all counterfactuals. It's easy enough to run the curves (and the post says they will release an API explicitly for that purpose), but the whole point of the EIP is to change up the incentives enough that some behavioral changes result. Calculating the new curves on the old behavior is only a starting place.
I'm in favor of the SPS but not the EIP. I wish they could be separated out instead of having to accept or reject the whole package.
I think the EIP makes too many assumptions about positive behavioral outcomes, without having enough checks in place for negative behavioral outcomes.
My only hope is that big whales that came out in favor of it... behave in a way that proves that the changes were good.
"Look how much better I'm behaving under EIP! I told you it would work!!" - Future Traf
And of course Steemit Inc.'s simulations have never been off by a factor of ten before.
#sbi-skip
Yes, I state that in my comment as well - I'm currently very skeptic about how big of a shift in behaviour we'll see, so in my 'uninformed' mind this 'starting place' might in the end prove to be pretty much reality for 95% of the platform anyway :') (Fake LOL, in reality I'm crying here.)
:') Oh, the joy!
I give "New Traf" a week. Look, you already have all the information you need to know if he is trustworthy, cares about content and is interested in the success of the community.
What more is there to know.
While I do hope I am wrong and these changes bring awesome changes. It is still too much for one hardfork.
Those guys...
They've had months to change their ways to offer proof and say, "SEE! This is how it could work!" All talk, no action.
@kevinwong! I'm looking at you, boy! You better be right or I'll be shoving my fist up your ass!
Ha!
On the bright side, they've extracted so much SP from this place, we're going to be loving those votes they promised, @whatsup.
Bid bot owners would be big winners, but that should self correct partially in the price of bot bids. Social interaction and new accounts would be the big loser, especially small accounts currently making small amounts of money from minnow and dolphin up-votes of their comments and posts.
The only incentive the EIP truly creates that can be easily seen when simulated is incentive for growth of the bid bot economy.
One important incentive the EIP doesn't create is the incentive for good content creators making a few bucks from add revenue sharing on other platforms, to come and switch platforms in favor of STEEM.
Most likely not, bidbots will most likely recieve a lot of downvotes now that they are free which will make their business model much less sound.
It would, I think, be much more effective and way less disruptive to the content economy to combine a 67/33 split for upvotes with a 33/67 split for downvotes using some sort of curator/aythor buckets, instead having 50/50 for both.
Why did you pick 16 Steem as the flatting point for the reward curve?
How many people would this effect? What are the pros vs cons? I'm sure this was all laid out in some private discord meeting with witnesses but I'd love to see a little more detail on the logic behind this just so I know you're not pulling numbers out of your ass and put some thought into it.
Just as they were in the past, these numbers were likely pulled out of their ass. Having the curve flat at 16 STEEM is a joke.
Well, you are deadly wrong in your suspicions @wakeupnd.
Big honchos never meets in plebeians bars as the rest of us. They just talks and start to pat each other asses when fully drunk in that other exclusive underground club they call Slack. };)
Ya, that sounds about right, lol.
Wus' up? @kawaiicrush? ¿Fat fingers syndrome? ¡Wadda fuck! hahahaha :p
I agree 16 Steem is low and a bad idea. Probably should be much higher considering the price of Steem is likely to go much lower.
That's a good point on the price. Sure would look dumb if Steem was at it's all time low of around 11 cents and users could only make a max of $1.76 per post. Part of the Steemit experience is putting out great content with the hopes of getting upvoted by a whale and making $25 bucks or more. I think this curve would end that fun experience for users.
Seems the graph is incorrect because it does not factor in the dust level threshold. Or is dust level going to be abandoned when the new curve is activated?
further, there truly doesn't need to be a steep section to the curve. Try a curve of the shape N x S^log(N) instead.
Here the blue line is a line close to the blue line proposed above. The orange line would be a more fair alternative that pretty much maps to a 17% increase of influence per increase in fish size. Because there are no extra steap or less steep parts in the graph, incentive scales perfectly between all fish sizes, so also there should be no sweet spot for abusers (or bid bot users) to aim for.
Rip Steemit, reject EIP please!
Good news
As much as I have complained about the future and direction of Steemit, I like seeing forward progress
Edited: wait, so we are still doing the 50/50 split? horrible decsion
I am actually starting to rethink that postion
As a creator, I despise it
As a dolphin (at least for more more week) investor, I can see where it would be useful.
So...
A minnow has to write AND comment AND curate enough until SP accumulates for it to be worth it for him' which is basically the same place we were before except creating pays less and curation pays more
Firstly, I want to appreciate and commend the effort of Steemit Inc and other official team members for their great impact on developing the steem blockchain to make Steemit more comfortable and easier to use for Steemians. I must say you are actually doing a very great job on the steem blockchain.
HF21 will actually be a great chance for more development on the steem blockchain. I just can't wait for the features to be implemented after the adoption of HF21. I actually want to ask some few questions which I found to difficult for me to comprehend.
I hope this won't lead some difficulties we experienced during the last hardfork which was HF20 whereby people were loosing their steem power and reputation as a result of Upvoting other people's posts. We were all aware of what really happened during that time such that activities on the platform had to be minimized for sometime to avoid loosing RC and steem power during HF20. Are you really assuring us that such occurrence won't happen? Or should we just minimize our activities on the platform and wait for some short period of time while the hardfork is ongoing to avoid any problems? I will love to hear your view or thoughts about this.
We all have been anticipating for SMTs. I was thinking we would start making use of SMTs as from the last previous months but it seems I heard nothing about it. I just hope you actually do something about the implementation of SMTs because some Steemians are now having a doubt of mind if there is gonna be SMTs adopted by the steem blockchain or not.
Does this actually means that every available Steemit community will need to migrate into the Hivemind-based protocol before they can start utilizing the great benefits of the steem blockchain?
Thanks for sharing this great post and thanks for your great impact and support on the steem blockchain.
They wrote about hardfork on testnet. It's not affecting "the real world" and it's meant to avoid difficulties when those change will be applied for real. Testnet is a place when we could well.. test those changes in a safe environment that tries to mimic real world.
Those changes?
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It's good to know you guys haven't given up SMTs yet. Good luck, hope to see it before fb's libra coin. (is it libra?)
People at Steemit Inc should keep in mind that this community is made up of regular folks for the most part... I don't know about any sort of curves so your chart is lost on me and, I'm sure, many others. You could just post that sort of thingy in your discord chats with the devs and witnesses... they're the only ones who know how to read those charts, just as they are the ones who support EIP.
In a post meant for the whole community, you should speak in plain English. Like most people do in comments. Like the comment that explains a post which made $1 will pay out 27 cents... I take it that's what you mean by
Try this one: https://steemit.com/normietalk/@justineh/normie-talk-hf21-explained-sps-eip-what-it-is-and-what-happens-next
This is a great point, it feels like this is often overlooked. Lots of talk of appealing to the masses, with so little talk for the masses.
So 50:50 is really happening? Do you have any solutions for dapps relying on author reward? e.g., utopian, steemhunt, tasteem, trip.steem? author's reward will be reduced by 33% (powerup effect due to increased curation reward would be negligible in the short term)
My solution for "dapps" would be:
Find a better business model.
Relying primarily on author rewards or capital appreciation is a very bad business model. People who are creating "dapps" as businesses need to understand how to generate actual revenue first. Hoping for post rewards to remain consistent and relying on them for operating costs is foolish.
Yup, move to a different chain or fork the existing one. We were supposed to be out of bleeding beta but the rules of the game keep changing, and for reasons that apparently only make sense in narrative form, because if you run some old data through the new rules, non of the proposed incentives truly jump out at you.
I'dd definitely power down to redfish level and buy UTOPIAN coins if @utopian-io was to fork itself away from STEEM and would do so without the (current) EIP.
this is sad
I am disappointed there is so little detail in this post.
I want to know what the content creators and curators rewards split will be. I have heard 50/50 but that has not been confirmed. What is the formula for the new rewards curve. From the diagrams, it looks something like N/(1+c(exp^-N)). Please clarify. What is the size of the downvote pool? At what point do downvotes come from the upvote pool, if at all?
Is the SPS going to be funded by the rewards pool? If so, where is this coming from? Curators, content creators, witnesses, interest, etc.
I'm more interested in communities than SMTs. We have lots of ad-hoc communities around tags and things, but a more formal structure with moderation would be really useful.
@elipowell does not seem to be posting much, but I'll follow her anyway.
Good to know! In case you didn't know, development of Communities and SMTs are fully independent. SMTs are being developed by @vandeberg and @gerbino (it's a soft "g") and Communities is being developed by @roadscape and relies on Hivemind (it's non-consensus).
I think its too late now for comunities. STEEM had a real opportunity for mass onboarding when G+ went belly up. With comunities, it could have made G+ group admin import of sorts. A missed opportunity AFAICG.
There have been missed opportunities, but there is still nothing else quite like Steem with any real community. So I'd say there is still a chance.
How was the decision for the EIP reached? Was there a voting poll I mistakenly missed?
I have no confidence in it, in fact I am very Skeptical it might lead a lot of creators away. Let's see how this unfolds.
Right now it's testnet. They still have to establish consensus approval from a super-majority of the top 20 witnesses. Those are the only votes that matter... which is why voting for witnesses is so important.
Which they will obviously get because I think this is done and dusted already, we May Just be bulldogs barking aimlessly
Thank you for the clarification & enlightment. I better get on that witness votes! :D Now I see why they really matter <3
How are these changes going to encourage people to power up steem?
I think STEEM would be so much better off actualy if pasive stake holders could be incentified to power down and sit on their STEEM and leave powering up to active stake holders. These changes sure aint going to help with that AFAICS.
How would they be incentivized to do that?
Think removing (most) inflation would help. There should be productive ways to burn STEEM in exchange for exposure. Promoted was a (failed) attempt at that, but there should be ways to do better.
To me it feels like the steemit.com name and brand is too badly damaged to ever be successful at this point. Which is why I think we needed to wait till SMTs were ready and then launch a new platform with a new coin, a fresh name (that people won't even know is run on steem), and a much better economic setup... this is likely just a waste of time likely going to damage the price of steem even further.
That's exactly what we are doing with cXc. Check out our Purple Paper, https://bit.ly/PRPpaper1
cXc? That is kind of a strange name...
Does not stop my power down! This is a cruel joke!
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Well looks like we will live here from now just in the land of boots!
I just hope Hardfork 22 will come few days after 21 and change all this nonsense...
It would be great if the rewards go to who really deserves it. Some centralized "Trail" have done a lot of damage to the community because of their greed and excessive egos. Especially in the Hispanic community.
I couldn't be more agree. That's why I don't even bother posting in Spanish.
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My bet is that stinc's rep will not be helped by this.
Just on par for the stincy course.
When the truth gets revealed will stinc have done all this out of total incompetence, or malice?
Enquiring minds need to know,...
Keep up the good work Steemit Team
I know in good faith you are trying to make #steem great again. Please try and don't over-complicate things. Sometimes simpler is better. Keep up the awesome work.
I don’t care what anyone says..... Steemit is awesome. It is by far The best place for an artist, photographer or creator to earn a living by blogging.
We’re not really allowed to say whatever we want on steemit.con
I am an artist, photographer, but I am not going to sell my opinions for votes!
It is not good if you have different opinions than @berniesadnerd !
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Thanks! That’s a lead for me! You always are lightyears ahead! I’ll check it out!
Hey.... a little bit here, a little bit there.... it all adds up. Some day I might consolidate all the various bits into One Bitcoin..I should have done that at $3,200 ... will next time.
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I strongly oppose all these changes at this time. EIP is exactly the opposite action necessary to increase user retention, discourage profiteering, and encourage capital gains by increasing the price of Steem. If I am correct, in the very near term after adoption of HF21 Steem price will fall, users will be reduced, and Steem's market cap will decline further. If I am wrong the opposite will occur.
Accordingly, please prepare to restore extant code in the event negative consequences result from HF21.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Please don't do that.
Thanks!
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What?! We will get ugly curve on this hardfork instead SMT implementation?
What about the bid bots? anything going to be done to stop them?
No the exact opposite. This is being done to help them do what they do best, but even more!
Great post if you like smoke and mirrors and misdirection. Sorry there was nothing in that post that made me want to keep my money invested in Steem. Plenty of other places to invest that have a better management team. If I was anyone reading this I'd dump now before its to late. Good luck.
Thanks for updates Steemit Team
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I feel strongly that only the poster of that page should have the right to flag any comments they do not welcome.
Should be called: new experiment paid for exclusively by the content creators.
Please don't implement EIP. The rewards curve is one of the worst offenders. It will force users to behave irrationally if they want to have any impact and will punish users who are behaving like the average user would.
I like to upvote the posts that I enjoy. The things I enjoy (and the things most people enjoy, deeply, truly) tend to be niche works. But under this system, everyone loses if the post doesn't reach 16 steem.
I have never voted on a post that reached 16 steem. The only posts I've seen reach 16 steem were either curie-ed (yay) or botted (boo). It will definitely be more of the latter than the former. Is that the behavior you wish to encourage? Is that what you think will draw more users to the chain?
I know you want people to buy more steem and power it up to have more impact, but this change will absolutely make it more difficult for steem to get to the point where LOTS of people use steem. It will remain a small village and possibly get smaller with this change because small accounts (which is most of them and will always be most of them because that's how sizes work) will have less hope of making an impact.
You're solving a problem that is only a problem for whales. But you don't want more whales, really. You want more minnows and dolphins. And even plankton. You want users. Facebook is valuable because it has EVERYBODY. Steem could be that, but not if it's doing things like this.
everyone knows: When you cheat, you win, and everyone respects you for it.
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shall see how the implementation unfolds, though sounds good...
No hardfork please. #NO5050
Great performance,
also great follow up, to start right away on SMT and Communities now...
thumbsup
Good Update, about time we start prepping for the next Bull
Honestly this is bad 50/50 plus a further 10% reduction I don't see the effect on the price of Steem or whatnot, big player May not be affected but users like u and I May be affected
I really don't care anymore, there was a time I would die for Steem and do my best for it.
Yeah, by powering down just in case there are idiots left to buy from us! Where is the greater fool now going to come from now??? Gunna be a bit difficult! lol
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You flagged me for no reason, this hate is why Steem is dying, my comments here doesn't warrant you to flag me!
Yes I am trying to kill steem as long as the leader @berniesanders keeps targeting me specifically! This is going to continue until I get my way!
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Would it help me to delegate more steem to your account?
cool
Any good reviews of how smt will work?
Thank you for the information.
So ..... how was the SPS funded? I know there was debate among witnesses, etc. What was finally settled upon?
inflation pool and normal donations
I am still looking forward to the POCKET token balance showing up in everyone's wallet. I hope HF21 will address this.
SMTs
Now that the release candidate for HF21 is out, our blockchain team has turned their attention to continuing development of the Smart Media Tokens protocol!
Really? Pretty sure you said that 2 months ago in a post...
If this is in fact finally true it is a good thing but honestly I am still 2nd guessing myself here...
We said that once we were done with HF21 we would move on to SMTs. Which is what we're doing. Thanks for reading our updates!
Always read the updates but given the history around here it seems like something ALWAYS comes up before SMT. Forgive my optimism for being diminished. I do really hope this is going to happen now.
We have SMT already which emulated by scotbot. I don't see big problem here but steem devs working really slow.
@andrarchy this is off topic but I see you're being downvoted as well. Let's change things, hmmm? Instead of comments being greyed out at -0.000000000000000000001, let's change that so comments can't be greyed out until -1.000000000000000. Someone would have to deduct $1 first. -50 cents, still there. Catch my drift?
lol i got more sp coming, until i am happy grey city!
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What grey comments starting to get to you???
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glad to have you back!
Let us pray!! this short paragraph detailing nothing is the best we have gotten in a long time, and I, for one, am stoked.
Remember when SMTs were going to be out 3 months ago? Yeah, me too
Remember when SMTs were announced in 2017 and were going to be released "sometime in 2018?"
I think Pepperidge Farm remembers.