I've written a longer response in the Listnerds channel in the ctp Discord. My main points were:
- defining quality of emails (content and value/benefit of what the email links to)
- shifting more attention/incentives to receivers (currently the attention is on senders).
- recognising all activity on ListNerds as part of the reputation score. Keeping staking/unstaking separate from reputation score as that has its own inherent rewards/disbenefits.
I've just been through my inbox and voted with the following criteria:
- brings value in email and through link, well-written and presented - upvote.
- problem with either email or linked content - downvote.
- email and linked content is well-presented but doesn't interest me for any of a number of reasons - no vote.
Those look like good criteria for your votes. The most difficult one for me to stay consistent with is the third one - I often upvote quality content that doesn't particularly interest me as I think it deserves verification.
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I agree, that is difficult - but I'm rapidly thinking that many of those should go into the downvote category because a lot of them are not using ListNerds as a marketing/content discovery tool.
If it was working well, people would transition from ListNerds to following you and other actions like tipping or voting for you directly on Hive; or perhaps joining the relevant community; or for something like Splinterlands, indirect benefits like starting to play the game, buying cards and tokens, which all indirectly increase the sender's enjoyment and the value of their holdings.
At the moment, many senders are using the means as the end.