Hi @sircork! We are @steem-ua, a new Steem dApp, computing UserAuthority for all accounts on Steem. We are currently in test modus upvoting quality contributions with a high UA value! Nice work!
Starting from the witnesses, UA propagates from user to user based on its followers until equilibirum is reached. Propagating UA does not directly reduce the UA of an account. Seems that a lot of dormant peeps are followed by accounts with high UA.
A few minutes spent around here quickly explains all that once you learn who is who.
"Starting from the witnesses" is the problem mostly here, since many, like myself post on our own accounts but our witnesses are different names. We often dont use our witness accounts for much on chain stuff at all, in some peoples cases, never at all.
Also, many witnesses are teams. So you arent accounting for their REAL influence here.
and a lot of the whales listed are dormant, but get followers because beggers.
The metric is clearly skewed by looking at your top 100 and then looking at who actually has blogs, activity in the last century or so... and not by money or by being a witness account, and this is coming from a witness who has been around here a good long time.
When @noblewitness starts to follow your account, you will raise in UA rank. At the moment the influence of @noblewitness is removed from the UA system, as it is not following anybody.
We tried to avoid any manual interaction for calculation UA. Its value completely depends on witness voting and follow behavior of all accounts without any manual correction.
Witness accounts are the seed accounts for calculating UA.
In the first UA calculation round, every witness get's a start UA value based on its received witness votes count. All other accounts starts with zero UA.
Accounts that following nobody do not increase UA of other accounts but can receive UA (seed as witness or being followed by others).
Where Im from, influence means people listen to another person talking.
idle accounts, witness or not, have no influence.
Klout.com tried to solve this for social for a long time and kept failing and died.
Activity and user response to it indicates influence, but as a long time user who actually KNOWS the people in your top 100 and can see who is active and and influencing others or the platform?
So I'm #504. Not sure how the math works with lots of dormant peeps in the top 100 there, but thanks? :D
Starting from the witnesses, UA propagates from user to user based on its followers until equilibirum is reached. Propagating UA does not directly reduce the UA of an account. Seems that a lot of dormant peeps are followed by accounts with high UA.
A few minutes spent around here quickly explains all that once you learn who is who.
"Starting from the witnesses" is the problem mostly here, since many, like myself post on our own accounts but our witnesses are different names. We often dont use our witness accounts for much on chain stuff at all, in some peoples cases, never at all.
Also, many witnesses are teams. So you arent accounting for their REAL influence here.
and a lot of the whales listed are dormant, but get followers because beggers.
The metric is clearly skewed by looking at your top 100 and then looking at who actually has blogs, activity in the last century or so... and not by money or by being a witness account, and this is coming from a witness who has been around here a good long time.
When @noblewitness starts to follow your account, you will raise in UA rank. At the moment the influence of @noblewitness is removed from the UA system, as it is not following anybody.
We tried to avoid any manual interaction for calculation UA. Its value completely depends on witness voting and follow behavior of all accounts without any manual correction.
theres ten accounts on the top 100 following nobody, noble included.
its pretty unclear what this "influence" is
Witness accounts are the seed accounts for calculating UA.
In the first UA calculation round, every witness get's a start UA value based on its received witness votes count. All other accounts starts with zero UA.
Accounts that following nobody do not increase UA of other accounts but can receive UA (seed as witness or being followed by others).
Where Im from, influence means people listen to another person talking.
idle accounts, witness or not, have no influence.
Klout.com tried to solve this for social for a long time and kept failing and died.
Activity and user response to it indicates influence, but as a long time user who actually KNOWS the people in your top 100 and can see who is active and and influencing others or the platform?
The algorithm needs some work.