so the only noticeable influence I can do to the abusers is by accumulating significant VYB stake, and then ... IGNORE.
What do you mean by this @onealfa?
It sounds like you accumulate stake and then withhold your upvote based on your own perception of abuse? Is it just token milkers who you ignore and how do you define someone as a token milker? It seems like a broad range given the common mentality here on Hive (I made a post today about that and tagged it #leofinance, hope it falls within the accepted rules there).
From my point of view, the position you have is a huge weakness in the DPoS model as you are limiting the distribution of tokens based on your personal opinion.
I was disappointed to see your lack of input in the VYB Curation Project efforts given your stance on manual curation and your now declared support of VYB. Did you withhold your vote from that post based on personal opinion? Do you not support the idea of improving autonomy and decentralisation in curation, or is that conflicting with your own position here? Who's to know... we're at your mercy.... what's he going to do next? lol, I'm playing, you do you dude.
The mention of POB being a dying token is also a low blow since now you've moved all your stake from it.
I'll admit, I am not too keen on seeing my two posts up on the top of trending today on the https://www.proofofbrain.io/trending/ page, although that's something I've addressed already and something we'll be looking to improve on as the weeks go by within the VCP. Overall I am quite enjoying the posts that are popping up. It's refreshing. You made it happen big dog.
Honestly, you were curating on POB for months/almost a year and I can't say the content was all that different from the LEO Finance front-end (just look at the VYB frontend already in comparison to POB, and then LEO, is it not obvious where the weakness is yet?), with the addition of POBStreet being up there too on the regular, but that's expected as you support that initiative and the participants heavily, and regularly. How many tokens did you manage to buy back from those people you upvoted? I've wondered for a while now (Why aren't you upvoting them with your VYB account? Rhetorical question for those who can rub two sticks together ofcourse). Again, how do you define "token milking"?
Anyway, stay classy (and that, is a seriously low blow coming from me), it ain't a good look dragging another token through the mud after "dumping" your stake from it and then moving your motives and actions into another tribe. Especially as it's a tribe that has openly stated their desire to support and complement the aforementioned tribe by large.
As mentioned above, Verify Your Brain is being birthed to complement the Proof of Brain tribe. One of the ways we’re doing that is by intentionally funneling any initial demand for VYB tokens through the open market for POB, an activity that we expect will (at least temporarily) boost the market value of POB.
I told you, you made it happen!
Oh, token milking and VYB's stance on this.. @vyb.vyb addressed this in a recent post.
Good to have you back, by the way, I've missed your content. Enjoy your weekend.
To finish this long and potentially drawn-out comment, this all takes me back to the early days of POB. I wasn't too keen to get back into this position of pointing out some things I personally find concerning from a large stakeholder in a tribe, although I felt like sharing what is on my mind this evening. Hopefully, it is met with a constructive mind instead of dismissal, like it has done in the past. PS. Hope to see you on the VSB Board! Don't forget to drop your comment.
Alright, I was just doing some thinking. It seems futile to hammer away at your maximalist approach in this environment. Can't change people, that's how it is.
I was wondering if we could discuss some form of method that would demonstrate to future curation teams in the VYB Curation Project model, how they could approach a higher stakeholder within the system and receive their support while both receiving solid value.
My thinking is that a support system could be created where stake is released from the larger stakeholder on a smart contract basis when certain thresholds are met? This could be from the value of the token, user count, development roadmarks, etc. There could be safety nets in place so that the larger stkeholder can mitigate the risk or on the flip, release more stake, based on the progress that the smart contract has made.
Spreading the tokens are the #1 task and that can be drastically improved by the number of people distributing said tokens. We can improve this by diversifying content too, so if the curation model is able to create more niche teams to categorise and bring excellent content to our attention (while distributing themselves, I'm hoping to get the curation rewards locked down for the VCP so the distribution will be increased even further for each team added), that should bring a wider range of opinions, and people, and quality, and fun.
It's foolish of me to leave the initial comment as it's putting us straight into a loop again where the past is highlighted and uncertainty is able to fester. The VYB Curation is going to continue to try and break new grounds and it'll take some doing and thinking. Hopefully there is wiggle room there for us to see the benefit in collaboration here (try something different? why not?).
This post found it's way into my mind after attending the #PYPT show yesterday, it's stuck with me. Great read.
Again, good to have you back, by the way, I've missed your content. Enjoy your weekend.
And damn, how did I miss this?