Author Upvoting, Rewards Pool, DPOS and Voter Diversification

in LeoFinance4 years ago (edited)

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Why it matters to you and me

I think this concept of voter diversification, combined with the reward system from the Steemit/Hive platform, now modified with linear creation on the Leofinance second layer community provides incentives to curators to diversify their votes amongst Newcommers and veterans alike, which improves new account retention, enlarges the community and makes it stronger, larger and improves content quality.

How did I arrive at this conclusion?

voter diversification.
39DFE0781BC14AE8A8E47D32AB985E92.jpegI read a post by @onealfa a few days ago, and honestly I didn’t get it the first time I read it, and I was embarrassed a bit that I didn’t understand the importance of

So...I clicked on the link in the post to an article by @leofinance which contained an explanation of the topic.

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Then...I then went back to the @onealfa post and read it again. And I had this moment of clarity, which I wish to share.

You see, not only did I feel I understood what @onealfa was saying, but I also felt happy because I realized that the Hive reward system, which allows Stake to determines the amount of the daily reward pool which is awarded to authors, and the modification of the Hive model by the Leofinance called linear curation, means that curators or post upvotes earn the same amount regardless of when you vote or whether you vote on posts with large rewards or small rewards.

This allows Voter Diversification...

because now as an Content voter or curator as we call them, you make or earn the same whether you vote on a new unknown author with a small post reward, as you would voting on a famous author with a large post reward.

Linear curation...

This important thing to point out is that linear curation, as implemented on Leofinance is a modification to the stake based reward system we had on Steemit, and currently have on Hive.

Because on those platform the earlier you vote increases your reward, and voting on posts with larger rewards increases the size of your reward.

This incentivizes you not to vote for new authors who may get smaller post rewards and incentivizes you not to read the post before voting because that makes you lose money.

Here on Leofinance those incentives are removed and Voter Diversification and more widespread engagement and rewards distribution occurs.

This means that members of our community with stake can diversify their votes to provide smaller percentages, amongst a larger number of authors, and earn the same amount they would by upvoting a larger percentage to a much smaller number of authors.

Whale Activity

This incentivizes large stake holders or Whales to due what’s in the best interest of our community. And most likely increases the value of our token over time.

Plus most importantly it illustrates two great concepts behind the Steemit/Hive Grand Promise or Great Potential of DPOS.

The grand promise of DPOS

I think the true promise of DPOS is ....


This ability to distribute the daily reward pool to others and 50% of what you distribute coming back to you incentivizes upvoting and rewards. So the more you vote, the more you make, but also means the more you vote, the more other people make also. Thus everyone is incentivized to vote and reward others as much as possible.#First,

This is like Karma..

The principle of Karma is doing good things let’s you build up a store of goodwill, but our system doesn’t build up something intangible like goodwill. It builds something tangible called rewards. Which you can use to buy food, water and shelter.


You can by upvoting with your stake, distribute portions of the daily reward pool, to reward those who produce good content for our community, at no cost to yourself!#Second,

A single candle...

This principle is similar to the concept that a single candle can be used to light a thousand other candles, at no cost to itself.

Finally, I see a Positive Feedback Loop

The great thing is that voter diversification encourages new authors, enlarges the community and results in more upvotes and rewards for those who engage in voter diversification. So more people make money and people are rewarded for helping more people make money. It’s like s reverse Ponzi scheme where the people who join first are rewarded not for taking money from the people who join later, but instead are rewarded for making sure that the people who join later make money!

I hope that doesn’t offend anyone, it’s just an illustration.

Wow Now You know what made me smile!

That was what made me smile and I hope I have explained it well enough, to make you smile too.

Thank you Turok Macto! [@onealfa]

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Written by @shortsegments

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More info why you see this.

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Thank you.

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I loved the ponzi analogy.

The problem with the curation curve is that it incentivizes automatic voting and punishes manual voting. This I didn't understand until I read that the one who votes later gives a percentage to the one who votes earlier. I knew that voting earlier increased the rewards but I didn't know it was because it was subtracted from the one who votes later.

If we take the ponzi example, in this case if could be a real one, where we vote and look for people to vote later to earn part of their curation reward. That is why automatic votes abound after 5 minutes that do not read the publication; subtracting the possibility to new content creators.

Leofinance did what needed to be done by putting the curve flat. I hope @blocktrades reads this post.

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Thank you for your comment, I agree Hive would be different if it changed to flat curation.

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I like this method. The SPORTS tribe uses it too, and I think STEM too.

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Hello
I didn’t know Sports used this method. That’s good to know. Thanks

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This principle is similar to the concept that a single candle can be used to light a thousand other candles, at no cost to itself.

Great analogy. I'd also mention @taskmaster4450 in here as well as a great example of upvote diversification. Him and @onealfa are the most active manual curators that I am aware of in this community. Overall Leofinance is the community with the most organic curation and some of the best rewards distribution.

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I’m not sure people realise the amount of time those 2 are putting into the platform. Pretty sure they found a way to make their day to last longer :D
A large part of Leofinance success is also coming from them.

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Ha Ha I will ask them how they stretch their days!
I agree that they have really worked hard to strengthen the community and their efforts compliment those of @khaleelzaki and his team wonderfully.

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You're right.

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Taskmaster is a bot😐

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I was thinking about that as well.

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Ha Ha :)
Good one!

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Thank you. I agree that @taskmaster4450 is another “whale force for good” on this platform, building up its members to strengthen the community.

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Loving the metaphor of candles being used to light one another. I have really enjoyed the structure of LeoFinance and I think the model has so much room to grow!

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Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it and I hope the promise becomes your reality.

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I’m a very small curator here but still this article made me tweak my curation pattern a bit.
Reducing my auto votes and valuing my 100% more than before.
Thanks for that, I’m moving to a better curation for a better platform future :)

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Thank you for the positive feedback, I am adding you to my feed and I will look for your posts.

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That's very important indeed!

I'm trying to be better at distributing my votes, despite being a very small account. I want to develop this behavior right from the start to help the community to grow.

It's also very good to have whales leading by example here! It really motivates me to keep on trying. I haven't been able to keep a consistent stream of posts yet, but I'm organizing my life in that direction and hopefully benefit from being a part of this great community!

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I think your on the right track, adding you to my feed to follow your posts.

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Thank you! I hope to contribute more and more to the community.

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This stuff needs to be promoted more and more! I've reblogged this and hope more people will see :)

I've already been voting on whatever I feel like. I never cared about optimizing curation rewards. But some do. Whales have a lot to loose by not optimizing for curation rewards. But with LEO it's all about what benefit the ecosystem. That's a some set of incentives as long as people don't just go around self voting 10 times a day.

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excellent article, since it is hopeful for new content creators and in this way I see more value is created in the community, since the ultimate goal I think is to be able to see different points of view regarding different topics.

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Yes, I agree that one of the strengths of the community is it’s diversity in terms of backgrounds and points of view.
Thank you for commenting and I am glad you found the article helpful.

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Sorry for joining late to the party, I just saw the tweet and here I am ^^

Thanks for reminding these facts dear. LeoFinance is diverged from all other blogging platforms in terms of its niche user profile. Besides, thanks to the curation curve, neither voters nor authors are having any lose of value problem. I hope to see many people who are eager to find hidden gems in our Hive ecosystem to help them get the value that they deserve 😌

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Welcome, the party just started! 😀
I am happy to hear you saw it on Twitter!
I agree with you, that the biggest purpose of Hive and Leofinance is to provide value for the value people provide in the form of content.

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Best post I've read in awhile because this is what I think to myself all the time. I understood this on steemit and hive and I big time get it on Leo. I try to encourage new authors with my stake because it is cheaper to try and keep them here than it is to onboard new users. That is the business side of it but it is what also feels good. I just wish my stake was big enough to matter more because the whales can't do it alone.

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Thank you for the compliment.
I am glad you get it.

I am also changing over from old thinking to new reality on Leofinance, and learning to balance my desire to upvote more with better voting power management!

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