Excellent idea! I’ve been thinking along similar lines. Rewards are distributed based on upvotes. Flagging someone else’s post doesn’t distribute the rewards anywhere else. You actually have to upvote to distribute. Your suggestion addressed this issue and I think we’d see an increase in distribution and user activity! Hopefully this idea will gain some traction! Thanks for the post. Resteem
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I fail to see if 10 posts out of 70K are taking too much out, that tripling the number of post wont reduce the impact of the 10 posts by 2/3. And it might even have more of an effect since the emotion will be drained out of the situation and those who delegated to each side might take their SP back and start posting themselves while commenting on other content they like.
We need more organic value! You can’t make money flagging. I prefer to stay out of the way and not cause too much trouble. It’s amazing to see how far some people will take it. We need more quality! I think we’ll get there over time.
It is part of our conditioning. People feel justified in their own rationalizations often to the point of even doing destructive behavior. This is seen with addicts all the time. They justify what they are doing even though they are destroying everything around them, including themselves.
Fear is a power entity that we all deal with. We do not like to feel out of control. Nor are we too keen on someone else having more than us...especially if we perceive it as ill gotten gains. And when we are fearful, we tend to attack.
Nations do this all the time and the governments that wage this battles use propaganda as a means of getting the masses to support it. People justify it in their mind that they are doing the right thing...the old protagonist/antagonist. We need someone or something to hate...then we feel validated in engaging in destructive behavior.
Watch after the Superbowl or the NCAA finals....mobs do all kinds of crazy stuff and people feel justified in doing it.
So as amazing as it is, it is not surprising considering mankind's history.
So true. It’s an addictive society. One justification or another. Great points!
This would definitely help, but I still don't understand how more posts = more rewards for everyone else, it would just dilute the voting across more posts right? I must be missing something
Yes it would dilute the voting pool for everyone, including the offender. Posting accounts for 75% of the reward pool. By more people posting, the reward pool is spread over more articles. Since one is tapped at 10 100% upvotes, unless willing to dilute by adjusting voting weight or using more than 20% daily, he or she is powerless to combat the dilution regardless of how much SP one has. It is the same reason the whales are losing power each time I interval I post in. Too many newer people putting up articles.
The point is the increased number of posts would enhance this blockchain by making it bigger. We would get more organic traffic since the search engines would have more to index. There would be more activity which would get newer people involved.
Plus it would eliminate the possibility that an article like I fictionally wrote about in the post appears in Medium or any other publication.
More posts mean that, ultimately, more upvotes will be generated, which will lead to more Steem. Delegations just move Steem around.
This is how I think it works, but I'm not sure either.