I really like your organized approach in regards to the Token distribution. I'm just wondering why the most important part (posting, commenting and voting) is not supported from the beginning? Because that is the engagement and activity that your platform needs. There should be first more people who are willing to contribute than people just sending their SP-Power. My question is will you distribute tokens to Hunters who are already posting on your Site? Which means will you re-calculate all the existing posts for token distribution?
Thanks for your interest :)
At the moment, as we have received over 330K delegations from our sponsors, we actually have too many postings and commenting on our platform, and many of them are just trying to get up-votings instead of really trying to produce a valuable content.
Users use bid bots to try to get higher ranks just to get higher votings from our bot.
It wasn't a big problem when we only had a low SP (a week ago), but it became the biggest problem now. We had to fix the problem before we scale the community more.
We're working on "Account Based Voting (ABV)" system at the moment, to make the curation quality better and we put the token bounty of "votings, resteem" contributions in a higher priority because we need more votings from community members (not from just random bots) in order to make ABV functions properly.
I hope I explained whey those "scaling the community" is kind of lower in our priority atm.
Token distribution for each category will start from whenever we launched the category (voting and resteem distribution will start soon, and others next), and there'll be no re-calculation. Left over tokens will be just burned, so yes the total proportion can be little bit different by our launching time.
Thanks for your responds and I totally can see your points, but that is what I was trying to say. If you first collect all the Steempower from Investors and your Votingbot becomes very big that is the thing when people will fight for the upvotes "rewards". So my conclusion would have been to first build up the user who provide good content and than let the investors delegate their Steempower.
Now you have choosen the opposite way and good content from users with low economic value haven't got a chance to get rewarded and the SP-Investors are not willing to take action or to submit their own content to Steemhunter. It seems to me that you have choosen the wrong priorities...first comes content and users than the investors should get their stake!
Yes I guess it could've better if we implemented ABV first and started HUNT token distribution on votings categories before we even scaled up to this point.. (before we started delegation sponsors).
We just didn't expect this much SP delegations before, and the problem just started happen after our voting power became very high (We had a decent community members and curation quality when our community was small). I'm not sure how things would've been if we started HUNT distributions for postings / commenting categories first.. maybe there could be less problems like what you said, but people could've been still abusing the system to get more HUNT tokens..
Yes, thanks for your thoughtful response and I really do understand your situation where you at right now. I think the voting bot situation is a general problem within Steemit and there are reasons why these Bots are good and not so good. I hope you will find a good solution for your platform (maybe when SMT is ready than moderators could enforce "anti-Bot-rules") till than I wish you all the best with Steemhunters. Keep up the good work!