RE: Forum monsters
Topic: Happy First Week Monsters Token BB - I Just Claimed My First Earned Splintertalk Tokens
It is incredible how fast things are moving, when you hover in the proximity of @aggroed and @yabapmatt. These two are thinking for ten and work for twenty people. The Splintertalk token and the connected Monster forum with the new Buildteam software, are absolutely amazing. It is a classic forum feeling but with upvoting. How cool is that?
As the Splintertalk (SPT) is running on SCOT from the Steem-Engine, we are having our own upvote ecosystem with it. All you have to do is to get some SPT on the market (or ask @aggroed if he still has some chunk of the distribution for you) and stake the tokens in your Steem-Enginge wallet by clicking on the lock icon and enter the amount you would like to stake.
Personally, I am planning on staking all my earned SPT and accumulate it by using the forum regulary, writing good entries and upvote your comments. There is no real usecase for SPT yet but knowing the Splinterland team, this will change eventually. Being an early adopter of a new token economy with inflation system, is incredibly beneficial for your token holdings - you will earn them faster than at any later state in the history of that token. The fewer people use the economy yet, the more of the reward pool is being distributed to the few that do. I am sure this will change quickly, as this is forum is the best way to communicate and share knowledge and ideas about Splinterlands.
Here is a screenshot of my freshly minted tokens from the SPT reward pool. I have to manually claim them, similar to Steem rewards. And then I have to manually stake them as well, if I don't want to sell them right away. Apparently new tokens are not staked automatically, like Steem Power payouts. It appears that 100% are paid out in liquid tokens. I am making sure to stake them and increase my SPT power.
What do you think of SPT and what would you like to see implemented to create a demand for it?
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Here is a 100% upvote for next weeks payout :)
I agree with you 100%. I see this forum being very popular and I will likely do more posting on here then on Steemit. I too just got my first payment, I like how the amount we have to claim is displayed at the top of Steem-Engine. Also, like you, I plan on staking everything I earn over the next little while.
I think adding a forum and SPT was a smart move. SPT as buy ins for special Splinterland tournaments could help the price.
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I too have received tokens. Pretty cool.
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yepppp glad to see that I could claim some as well and you are correct. Knowing from past experience from the team, keeping them is probably a wise decision :P
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@rentmoney and @neoxian: What do you guys think about splitting the voting? Right now we upvote with both Steem and SPT. That is cool and has great advantages (thanks @neoxian for the upvote, that Steem value is impressive!) for platforms like Appics. However, in the Splintertalk forum, I could imagine that people would upvote more, if the Steem upvote is not automatically included in the SPT upvote. Matt already said that this is technically possible but not implemented yet. Would you like to see that the upvotes are seperate or rather keep them together?
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Yea um, I actually didn't realize it was both a Steem and SPT vote, so..you guys got lucky with my full Steem vote, congrats, heh. Yea I'll be voting smaller now that I know they are joined. Whether they should be split or not? I'm not sure. Actual Steem votes might attract more people but keeping it pure SPT could be cool too and I could vote 100% much more.
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I think ultimately the idea is that we wanted these votes to be split. That way, a whale outside the Splinterlands community would not have that much influence. Trusted members inside the community would be the whales and would hopefully result in better quality forums on specific topics. I happen to be a whale in both here, so for me it doesn't make too much difference in this one case.
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Good point. The outside influence would be heavily diminished with split votes. On the other hand, the forum could just show the SPT upvotes (which it does right now already) and ignore all Steem upvotes, so it would be irrelavant whether a whale up- or downvotes the post, as long as the whale has no SPT staked. Hence, I am not sure how much of a factor this actually is.
Getting both Steem and SPT is awesome, no doubt. I just wonder if the forum could profit from allowing SPT upvotes only, encouring more people to use the function. I guess this would have to come with another incentive to earn SPT in the first place. Some sort of sink that is beneficial for the users. Splinterland cards, potions and skins sound like fun. Maybe something that can only be obtained with SPT and no other way.
In the end, we all want to get more and better Splinterlands content and make some sort of profit with our interaction and stake. The classic idea of SMTs and now SCOTs. The right incentive would help to achieve that and make the forum flower with tons of content creators. People would also be incentivized to trade, sell and delegate via the forum as well, since they can earn SPT with that. And others would be able to easier find the cool offers from other people, which otherwise would only be available when they manually hunt through the market.
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Wow, I have gotten my next payout. I am now at nearly 2% rewards claimed on the first day, compared to my total stake. That's exactly what I am talking about. Mining SPT is now easy and will never be that easy again, assuming we will actually get a proper sink for the token.
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