Reply to Beneficiary Reward Split Discussion
I think it would be good to allow non-paying forum owners to take up to 10% of the rewards from their forum and offer even more flexibility for Premium forum owners, especially for unusual circumstances i.e. If someone commits 10,000,000 Steem Power to reward the users of a particular forum, there should be a limit no less than 75%. It would be a free market, and it may attract large investors and would likely reward users much more than setting the limit too low.
EXAMPLE:
If Premium forum owners set the beneficiary rewards too high, people will simply stop using their forums and will choose an alternative, especially since making an alternative of a TokenBB forum is a lot easier than making a Facebook alternative (the user data is public unlike Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Quora etc.)
Allowing higher beneficiary rewards might help entrepreneurs and forum owners raise higher delegations for their users if they agree to funnel most of the profits from their forum to delegators... but you can charge different fees for different limits and on a sliding scale - 75% would be the most expensive and only accepted under extremely unusual circumstances and requires an official proposal, followed by 60%, 50%, 40%, 30%, 20% and then the free version of 10% and below.
I believe a cut of 35% of the 10%-Beneficiary-Rewards-Cut would be a good starting point for TokenBB to raise funds from forum owners, but this can also be decreased if someone makes a competing platforum for forums and offers a better deal.
The key is not to underprice your services in the beginning since cutting prices will always be popular, but increasing prices if you set it too low at first can leave a really bad taste in people's mouth.
I don't know how high I'll set Beneficiary rewards for my forums but it would help if you made it flexible, since I want to funnel most of the rewards to delegators who will in turn, reward my forum users much to their liking - My ultimate goal is to enable people to earn decently well, just through their contributions on DavaoCity.xyz and other sites and forums.
If the beneficiary reward cut is to low, like 2.5% or even 5% for forum owners, newcomers with little Steem Power (like me) will have a hard time attracting investors and may not even be able to reward their users at all. Please take that into account.
The lowest cut I think TokenBB should take is 2.5% of total rewards.