That is a very interesting experiment - honestly I am not sure how I feel about it (as to being an improvement upon your current approach where you already reward good comments for the effort with a reward based on the quality).
So what do I think will happen:
- I do think more people will start commenting, possibly using multi accounts.
- I think the quality of the new comments will be bad, very bad.
- I think the current followers that do comments already will continue to do so - and the quality will remain the same.
I think that $1,- is quite a bit for some people (especially if they can play the system using multiple accounts). Quite some people in crypto are desperate to make a buck and change their lives. Based on the current reward farming I will expect these people will definitely try to take advantage out of it.
I feel the people that we would want to start commenting, should want to comment regardless of any reward. The real reward is good conversations on interesting topics. Potentially getting any reward is just a bonus.
But… can’t deny I clicked on this and will follow you. Not for potential rewards but mostly because it triggered me to think for +/- 1h before I commented!
A good comment.
So, the "experiment" was this post. I am not the man to reward a lack of effort so would never hand out $1 vote comments to people who don't show it, along with passion and personality.
I've had a few people comment here who have never commented to me before, a byproduct of my title I assume, which was done for that very reason, and I've been interested to see the comments from them and others I have known here for years. Some of those comments were a little eye-opening.
I always check wallets when someone new comments to me, as I did with yours. I liked the power ups but see you've delegated almost all your stake leaving you with a very low vote, but returns for yourself. This is your prerogative of course. I have preferred to do it differently, powering up and holding my stake under my control so I get the enjoyment of handing out over $3 rewards to those who deserve them - it makes it more fun.
As you say, engagement and interaction is the benefit of Hive and I think some people don't well and some do not. I've been around for a long time and really miss some of the "old folk" from eight years ago, but there's some good people out there and new folk can become old friends right? Or...they just fall by the wayside and get left behind.
Thank you for your feedback on this and I agree with you. I feel I am still learning here, but am definitely moving forward to that direction. I decided to make a change in my portfolio and finally get my funds in hive and hbd directly rather than mostly in tribaldex tokens. Last Saturday was a first bigger powerup - and atleast 3 more weeks like this will follow. My plan is to have <50% delegated as a final outcome - and just continue to get the perfect power up year!
I must admit that I find it a little scary to grow my account and actively vote for content, as I think I should also use the downvote (and start some big drama) for a thing I noticed happening. Being conflict-avoiding - I took the easy way out by delegating my stake, but that also doesn’t feel completely right. So I am working towards to getting in the drivers seat step by step.
From your main post another point had me thinking for a while. (/reflections seems indeed to be the best topic!). You mentioned the using of token tip bots. I feel I am also learning with that regards and would love to read your view on the following:
I hold the largest position of a token called DUO (which is trading at 1.5 hive). There is a tip bots feature that allows me (only me as I am the only investor with more than 10k tokens), to tip 2x 0.5 DUO a day. My expectation so far has been that the persons receiving the tips will just sell it and be happy with a little (2x 0.75 hive reward) - but I can also understand if it is viewed differently (especially before opening a new post and notice that most of the comments are just tipbots).
Would you say that that this tipbot is providing any value or that it is just the same as the lower value tips?
On losing the good people from 8 years ago!
I think it can be a consolation that also in real life we lose and replace (on average) roughly 50% of our friends every 7 years. While I was not around here 8 years ago, I was active on reddit on the bigger cryptocurrency forums and I can definitely understand that things changed (and with the $ value of crypto in general - not necessarily for the better). But yeah, I love it here, there are still great people and some people are doing great things!