run an ad model later where creators and consumers get a share
i hear you! that's a good idea! actually, in all honesty, if a centralized frontend provider runs ads on decentralized user content, distributing the shares accordingly should be a given?!
I remember back in the day steemit.com used to provide a public view-counter. I was quite disappointed when they took that off... it was at least kind of interesting to see those posts with barely any views and massive rewards.
We're going a bit off topic, though... back to your original concept, datamining content topics and user browsing habits to provide a custom recommendation feed to find interesting authors and posts would greatly help user retention. Content discovery in the frontends as is takes real effort and time... which is why I have always been a lousy "curator"
The issue is, how would that data mining be paid, by whom? And would it push certain content over others to be the biggest paid on hive?
How would it handle people dv content because yes?
Because people sometimes dv content for no good reason, just because they dont like certain content...
The dv adds another layer of difficulty to the machine learning in data mining. In my opinion :S
People also upvote for no good reason. This post has >200 upvotes after an hour. How many do you think read it?
Both up- and downvotes are only useful data points when connected with others like reading time.
Financing might become an issue, at some point we'll probably have to tap in the dhf and explore further possibilities for monetization.
If you create a DHF, maybe do a crowdfunding as well and offer Badges / limited NFTs as rewards. We're in a bearish market, I'd rather spend FIAT than crypto.
How could the data miner handle the trails? 540 votes but like 3 people reading... That would cause at least some issues with it. And would comments influence?
This has to be explored, tested and evaluated. These types of algorithms aren't static once implemented, they need constant fine tuning.
Good point, but curation trails could push things a bit, an example of it are ranchorelaxo votes that would already place any post in trending no matter what. If we were to add an algorithm to that, it would be a disaster.
DHF is not such a good idea, to a point the fund is already overloaded, yeah technically it can hold more... but eventually it could not.
And a curation project would never have enough profits to keep it going, isn't it?
I don't know about other curation projects, but curangel doesn't make profits at all. For now I'll be able to cover the expenses and (slow) development through the witness. If I drop out, price drops a lot more, or we get to a point where we need a lot more manpower, we'll have to see.
The dhf has a lot of room for more projects, provided it's regarded as more important than the HBD stabilizer.
Most of them don't, because they return to the delegations, that is the issue mostly :S if that approach were to be made, it would have to be funded initially by someone, and it would just keep going with the growth of the voting power, that is why it has never been done before. I have told that before xD and be answered that. So far is a solid argument, but i will keep trying saying that solution xD eventually, some day, it could be possible.
Well, if you take the cost of your work at a low cost and program most of it basically on your own, it would take a lot of time but at least it would make it cheaper on the dhf, and less difficult to get funded.
I'm not in favour of projects using the posting reward pool to finance themselves, so that adds another hurdle.
Personally, I don't work for money but to create something, so a baseline would be covered. But I can't work out the algorithms all by myself for example, and when we add a front-end to the mix the amount of coding necessary just demands for more developers to get involved.
I failed once bringing a project that big (well, actually it was bigger and required more external knowledge than now) to life here, because I couldn't find contributors. That's why I started posting about it now, to see if there's positive feedback from people who would be able to help.
I'll definitely keep dabbling on it for a while now, and long term has to be seen.
My knowledge in coding is crappy to say the least, I'm kind of smart, but I originally studied mathematics on collage up to half the career, yet ended up going with accounting because I failed to adapt to the reality of Venezuela, it was either study or starve, and I ended up choosing the not starve, for obvious reasons, eventually I was left unable to graduate at all... But i do keep an eye for ideas like these in Hive, because all good seeds must be supported, even if my support is basically nothing, as a small account, yet i could at least do moral support and brainstorming :)
Anyway, any kind of funding is good to my eyes, but i do see how post revenue and reward pool as funding could be a bad idea at so many levels...