Currently have a script to pay out STEEM in a voting game scenario of a choice of comments with one winning. Could work on obtaining a script for similar projects and processing payouts for games and other projects while working out a collaborate method of affording the scripts as a percentage of funds processed for each project potentially.
On the other hand understand the the concerns with lower value payouts and if the project is worth it. So we shall see what the community says and wants as a whole.
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Thank you and yes but I think it would benefit the platform better if accoubts were powering up.
I agree. Was just starting out with a more simple script so it was more affordable. Still let me know if you are interested and I will work on raising funds to get the script to offer this service to you and others. As I am working towards this for @thegame account.
Thank you @virtualgrowth, I may take you up on that offer. This was the interaction growth I was looking for :)
You are most welcome @bitcoinparadise :)
Including gamification is probably very good to reach the goals, in my opinion.
I like this feedback :) hmm how to gamify this project?
Good question. I must admit that I missed your project when it was started and I have just read the initial post. It looks already very funny and gamy, but most is probably required. And here, I am sorry to say I have no idea :( Maybe including the comments in the equation?
Yea I thought about that but I really want to spread steem. There are supports with voting accounts that don't create posts or curate on those accounts. Some see that wrong but in the end, someone is receiving steem and for them to use them and that's what we all want is more people to have and use steem :)
Some ideas on how to gamify the VIP (just brainstorming, so feel free to veto/adapt/etc):
Have two people included in each VIP post allowing people to vote via comments (like steemsports) on which one they like more...in my mind this would put artist vs artist, fiction vs fiction, etc. The comment winner would receive a bonus % on top of the flat amount, just to make it interesting.
Instead of pitting users against eachother in this since...keep your current style of one featured author and the comment voting would instead be used to choose where that 'bonus %' (yes, this like the above would require tweaking the #'s a bit on who gets what to make it all fit) is applied in the sense of a 'good cause or project' either on or off steemit. (if a charity, we'd still want to make sure it was legit, but this would let part of the funds be put to help something or somebody within or out of the steemit community)
Keep your current single featured author structure and let the voters choose between the two options in comments on who they would like to have as the next featured author. This wouldn't require any change to the pay structure but still keep community involvement and get some idea of what those followers/voters are actually wanting some more information/feature on.
Beyond this, you could even provide a custom VIP badge that could link back to their vip feature that they could include in posts just like the steemverify badge. This would let that author 'show off' a bit while also giving the VIP project some extra exposure.
All great ideas. I admit I did think of this and feature more than one author and do something for competition on the post but bots with a trail of accounts will factor to the winner. Sometimes it may not be a competition. Then I would need to change the criteria on reputation level but I do not want to do that because other's do benefit from a bot account with a trail of accounts.
If those voting accounts gets powered up, whoever they vote on should see more rewards. More use of steem and more distribution. Plus it's steem power so I think it's a win win that way.
But I will look at some of your suggestions and possibly add them to the project. In the end competition is good.