Steem needs decentralized polling.
Voting in polls is something that people would no doubt use as Twitter has proven. I vote in polls there all the time, and I really think Steem would benefit from having this feature. Any thoughts?
IDEA: Polling is needed!
9 years ago in #steem by tamwin33 (56)
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Right now I can say that we at Follow My Vote are watching Steem closely and it's entirely likely that we'll port a lot of our technology to Steem after it launches on BitShares. Steem has a major advantage for polling in that it has no fees. :)
Also, our designs for ID-verified, anonymous one-person-one-vote polling should be effective solutions to the problems @pfunk references, with sybil attacks on the one hand, and stake-weighted polls primarily being useful only for community decisions on the other.
Wow that's excellent! I was thinking it would be more of an informal thing where stuff like that would be socially enforced but having accurate polls would be extremely useful as WELL as fun. Big fan of Follow My Vote btw. You guys stay innovating over there
There are some issues that would need to be worked out. For one, one account = one vote is problematic because of the potential of many accounts being used by one person, which lessens the chances of accurate polling.
On the other hand, reducing sybil voting could be done as it's done with upvotes here, by giving the votes weight based on SteemPower/vests. That is even more problematic because then you're only polling those with a highly vested stake, which is only useful for issues regarding the Steem network itself.
There's also the issue of voting/curation rewards. If there were any rewards involved for voting in a poll the site would quickly become a mess of polls everywhere because of the monetary incentive.
For these reasons, and as much as I'd like to see an on-chain solution, I think informal polling would best be handled by a third party service like http://www.strawpoll.me/
Well what about polling just for fun? It doesn't necessarily have to be scientifically useful. Using Twitter as an example, what's to stop someone from making a bunch of fake emails and then voting in the polls there? I think it'd be great to have actually accurate polling, but I think having it for the novelty isn't a poor decision. I almost like the idea that it would not be supposed to be taken seriously.
There is nothing that says you couldn't offer 10 different views of the poll results. One by account, one by stake, one by accounts with a minimum amount of stake.