I probably should not have upvoted myself on my own burn posts, given that I could have voted on any other burn posts instead. And I think I am going to stop it because that promotes self-voting for people who don't understand why I am doing it.
It's not very easy to explain these things in small words (for me). Because many of the reasons these things exist are "adjustments" to what previously could have been a problem, and then the majority agrees on making that sort of adjustment. For example, previously, the rewards were not 50/50% and that created a bigger problem with circle voting or even self-voting. With the 50/50, that incentive was reduced...
Either way (and this is just an example, not really related to exactly explaining your question), curation works in my view... and yes there is still lots of problems with bad actors, but they will always exist, no matter how you design things.
I don't spend much time stating on the chain what my thoughts are about the code... and how I think it could work, not because I don't have these... but because these thoughts usually can confuse people, and I don't want to do that to the many that might not understand. These kind's of conversations can be had on chain, but you really need to know the person, otherwise they can go very weirdly or off topic.
This is one of the reasons I give a damn to reply to you. Not being afraid if for some reason I misstyped something or we don't understand each other on a specific topic or point. Because we met, and we have a reference of each other. That matters a lot on this chain.
And with that, I have slightly gone off topic...sorry :P - my point is, to answer you, people can now use AI, so spending some time finding out about things, is a good thing. Doing some research in the past was very costly, today? really cheap...
And note, I know you are just talking and asking... and that's fine. But yeah, my view is these types of conversations are quite hard to have on chain. :D In a meeting... fine. And if you want, we can have one again. I liked the one we had the other day on snaps.
Cheers! And keep building this app. As you seen, I am using it for a reason... it works!
I am going to checkpoint with you later this week. I am going to enjoy weekend now... see you around.
Fair point. I think my confusion mainly comes from incentives.
If burn posts still allow curators (especially self-voters) to accumulate stake through curation rewards, then economically it feels less like a full burn and more like partial burn + stake accumulation.
I’m not saying anyone is malicious. I’m trying to understand whether the system naturally favors large stakeholders over time due to stake-weighted rewards and compounding.
Maybe I’m missing some counterbalance in the design — still learning and trying to understand the mechanics better.
You are more than happy to always come back with questions. I love it.
And now I have hopefully clarified that as a big Yes! :D Because no one can prevent accumulating rewards on the curator's side. It's always accumulated at 50% of the vote. The only option to deny the curator's side is with downvotes, making the post value go back to zero.
I know, but we have to always think about them, and that's why I was making an example out of them. And the system does not favor depending on the stake, its the same percentages for everyone. If one wants more potential curation "rewards", then the only way is to stake more. That's it! There is obviously the story about, if you vote is so big, that even if everyone wants to downvote your post, they can't make it go to zero... but then that's the same story again... if the people downvoting want it to go to zero, the only option is for them to stake more. This acts as the main governance principle of the platform.
There are some technicalities on posts, that you might need to understand in order to make curation more efficient... that you are probably missing. I think I need to write a post and try to make this clearer for people, given not everyone wants to just explore the code themselves. And that's fine... its part of the reason I try to help around.
I will always try to help whom wants to know more. Going touch some grass and then lets see if I can write something up.