Big Plans for 2022 for Proof of Brain.Blog
I had a little chat with @ajanaku here and without sharing things that might be private. Some thoughts did occur to me in the course of our conversation:
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- live off chain chat is something expected.
- There are several bugs and usability issues I need to squash prior to doing that.
- I need to remove flags from interface and replace with. Flagged for fraud, flagged for plagiarism.
- And also a way to create invoices so we don't rely on people typing things perfectly when sending POB.
Several Bugs.
Some of these I noticed myself and a couple have been noticed by others. These involve basic wallet functions displaying zero for non-zero staked amounts making it impossible to delegate or power-down with the Proofofbrain.blog wallet. Strangely, nobody has complained. Perhaps there is no reason to ever powerdown? There is also one for reporting of rewards. Right now, I'm away from my dev box and uable to do a thing about it.
Chat and Off-chain
There are times when you wish to chat with another user and you want to do this off-chain. Others have come to expect builtin chat in a social media platform. It has always been a sorry work-around that we have to use Discord to do real time chats we don't want stored in the blockchain.
Flags But Not "Just Because"
Flags with explanation should be part of the interface and replace the simple downvote button we currently have. It is not instructive to recieve a flag for a post without explanation. You learn not say certain things in Hive. Like don't shit on the Hive price or the compare Hive to some kind of dictatorship. I don't really see any benefit to comparing Hive to Nazi Germany when most English speaking countries have started following the Chinese example.
There are worse cases I can point to. Sometimes posts were flagged for the author being someone's wife. I'm talking about @jerrybanfield's wife. I am not his super-fan. I am not his enemy. But in principle this is wrong. Flagged to a negative reputation score. Her crime? Association?
There is also the example of being flagged for having the correct idea of staying the hell away from the clot-shots but the high stake hive user has the wrong idea? Look at Vaers and now how the death rate is increasing in India by 40%. It's only because they are not counting the recently vaccinated death injuries as COVID deaths that they see it.
Then there is flagging for being rewarded too much. This is rather dubious to me, but the community has seemed to accept it and I'm flexible here. Let me ask if 445 decide something is worth votes, should two votes be allowed to make the reward zero?
Invoices
Whereas most of the time crypto involves 'push payments', where the sender decides what to spend and how to make the transaction, 'pull payments' work the opposite direction. In the credit card world this is automatic but to make sense with crypto-currencies, each invoice must be manually approved by the owner.
Invoices are little pull-payments. In a credit card, your merchant puts the exact values in and then the bank approves it yes or no. In the crypto-world, the merchant creates a transaction for you (after you click a button) and then allows you to sign it somehow. This is something that is done by @privex these days for Hive transactions via Hive Keychain. A similar thing can be done with POB transactions. In fact a kind of invoice method is used in paying for promotions for Proofofbrain.blog already.
It would be handy if regular users could create an invoice for another user without having to write his own web-interface 🤗 Then when the other user pays, we make sure there are no errors involved with mistyping the user id.
This is also a good idea for exchanges, like @blocktrades or @bittrex for ensuring the user has the correct memo-id and amount. For no good reason they rely on the memo-id for know which user it belongs to, when we have send to name accounts? Just use the account id. Why isn't this obvious?
Wow this is great if set in motion, such guide will go a long way to make things easy going in the platform.
Love this your idea ,like what you said before thinking of bringing more people to the community, member of the community should be retain first , having a reason to stay should be provided and this can be done when community is lively , how can community be lively ,this is not only achieve by writing post but chatting with each other, creating fun 😊 , the idea of chatting box will be good , great work and am looking forward to that
Muchos éxitos. Ojalá que el blog siga creciendo.
This is way above my head to understand.
But thank you very much for your hard work for proofofbrain community
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Thx for the update monsieur L........good to know where to report any UI issues with POB :)
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That seems pretty about the "pull payments" because normally if someone sends something if they put the wrong username it can be quite disastrous. The inverse of that seems to be more stable, but I suppose just slightly more time consuming. I think that would be a pretty great service overall though.
Maybe when doing so you can make it somewhat automated remembering who are last sent/transactions are so as we type in part of their names there will be a dropdown. Or a way we can add people we frequently transact with so people that do transactions often can use your platform as a quicker and more efficient way
Definitely this is a very good one and of all it will also bring progress to the community.
I think the chat chain is something that will be of more benefits to the community too
I really like the invoice idea. That means a marketplace...great idea!
Have you seen hivelist.org? If not check it out.
As far as off chain chat, do we really need anything other then discord or telegram. I am a firm believer that we need Blockchain chat/I'm dapps. I am unsure that will be doable though until a secure cryptic lock system is created to assure users privacy.
I do agree with giving downvotes reasoning.
Can you fix the appearance of the layout on the main page?? The images are all cut off. Maybe if you can make them scale to 100% inside the boxes? This is what it looks like from my end, when I resize the page it doesn't fix the problem.
My fix is that you go to proofofbrain.blog
OK, sorry i have a hard time keeping up with all the sites and urls, everything is just so scattered. I'll check it out. Thanks for the reply.
Oh that's sad if his wife got flagged. Wonder how he's doing now... Haven't checked if he still has posts here or in Steemit.
Do you know his wife's id? I think she posted once and then gave up.
No I have no idea. Didn't even know she was on here.
Many years ago I heard lectures from a "net professional" about the unpredictability and impact of social networks. In undertones, one could hear that companies and even governments would be very concerned about how the mob would move out there on the net and what it would mean for brands and companies if these sudden events went net-wide. I guess they were afraid that the individual sitting at his screen typing whatever he felt like could trigger every possible viral effect. A little of that can be felt here too. Always the fear that something unforeseen could damage the reputation or the profitability. There is probably something to it. Gossip can apparently topple careers and companies. LOL
I myself am not sure that it is really so good that everyone can say everything and everywhere, but I do not see the solution in censoring or controlling when it is done in a way that also has its pitfalls. I don't know, many Pandora's boxes have been opened ...
I guess one shouldn't be under the misapprehension that one knows someone whose publications and comments one gets to read online.
Perhaps it is best to have some anonymity online. Like don't announce when you're going on vacation and make sure your address is rather ambiguous.
Yes, anonymity is something which gets precious. I remember the early days of the Internet. We were not thinking about anonymity and wanted to shout our names, brands and ideas to it. So many things changed with time. I canceled my online presences except this one.