RE: HF Idea / Proposal: Witness Disapproval Feature

[tarazkp]

upvoted for some discussion on preference.

I think the highest I have ever got is 10th for the day.

Obviously it depends on who comments so the posts that are engaging those with higher ranks will get favoured. This post has had quite a few witnesses in the conversation with comments strings as well as other pretty highly ranked UA (I would gather) which from my understanding helps push rank.

I am interested in how these things progress and evolve over time as they indicate how Dapps and interfaces could categorise the content later. As soon as an algorithm is implemented it will be imperfect but the idea is to find a good fit for the user base.

Comments

[scipio]

Yes, the base formulae for the @steem-ua curation rounds is as follows:

Step 1:

UA_Vote = x * UA_Account + y * UA_Post + z * UA_Comment

where

UA_Post = sum(VS * UA_Voter)

Step 2:
All posts UA_Vote scores in the same curation round / window are than compared relative to eachother, and then those relative scores are voted on percentage-wise.

So indeed, it depends on who comments / engages on a post, which is in this case quite some high-UA accounts (not just witnesses though!)

[scipio]

And arguably, favoring high-UA commenters makes sense:

• let's for example take @blocktrades as a commenter on this post. @blocktrades is a top witness, but also a high-SP account and runs a crypto OTC (?) conversion trade service that doesn't require registration to be able to use it;
• when I joined steem(it) at that time all exchanges were closed to newcomers and I had no account there, so my only way to buy BTC was via @blocktrades . So for me, @blocktrades "saved me";
• probably a lot of other people feel the same way!
• which justifies the high UA-rank of @blocktrades , because UA is an influence metric. If it weren't for their service, I would have probably left or at least not (so) active. But because of @blocktrades I stayed. That makes @blocktrades very influential, for me at least, and probably to a lot of people.
• very influential people get bombarded with interactions, opportunities, they need to be very selective;
• so if and when a very influential person (having a high-UA rank) feels the need to comment, then the post is arguably important and interesting enough to engage with.