RE: The Upvote Multiplier - More Curation Power at the cost of Voting Power? + UI Design
What would you think of some sort of promotion voting (non vote power using) that could be used each day. It wouldn't make a post more money, but would make it more visible depending on steem power. This is a very early thought, but if something like that was implemented if you found a great article and wanted to bump it up without necessarily having a lot of voting power left, I believe that would encourage people to vote (I don't know how monetizing would work or even if this is feasible).
I think new users may get discouraged that their vote really does almost nothing to a post with an upvote. I think for sure people should at least be able to upvote two or three times. Maybe not unlimited, because that much power could cause corruption among less scrupulous whales, but I do think sometimes it is unfortunate that content we absolutely love can only get one part of our voting power.
Interesting Idea, but yes the monetizing aspect would come into play. I do think losing extra voting power would work in this case because as you can see from most of the accounts on steemit everyones voting power is around 70-100 % even very active accounts have a high voting power. One of the reasons why people get discouraged is that their posts don't get a lot of $$$ off the bat. With more people voting , more often, even small posts that are making $.05 could be making $1 and even though that doesn't seem like much I think it is. Dollars add up!
By giving people little more say in how their power is distributed I think they will have a tendency to use up that Voting Power, and thats a good thing. Think I said in the post i don't vote enough personally , i am very busy lately and it hard to get on and up vote good content. I could could just go and up vote randomly to help people get motivated but i think this is the wrong move. Having better content pushed to the top with more accurate voting is what is really needed. With more power these new users may become more active and stay active , instead of abandoning their accounts... from @dantheman's latest post I think he would agree we need this.
Having the Multiplier get cut off right when the adjustable voting % slider is available would eliminate the miss use by whales I think.
Ya I believe that getting new users excited with even a small amount will be really important for the long term goal to have more people reading and creating content. Definitely agree on a cut off for the vote slider. You have really good ideas @blueorgy (have you revealed the reason behind your username before? Always have wondered).
I think I might do a funny little post asking people to guess ;)
Haha A Smurf threesome is my guess, but I'll have to expound on that for the contest