Hello minnows ,
In response to @minnowsupport's post for proposals, I submitted my proposal through this post.
The theme is Growth on the Steem Platform. Submit an idea. Some questions for the forum. A proposal. A request. A performance. Where you think the platform is heading... whatever.
How to discover contents in better ways
Currently, one of the biggest objections from the users that their well written/researched content never gets attention (upvote). Yes, currently curation is done with SP powered vote or delegated SP votes but in chaotic ways. I think the biggest goal in steem blockchain is to discover the best contents from sea of posts with multiple algorithms. The current algorithm based on power (upvote) votes does not discover best of contents.
"busy.org" suggest "interesting people" or "Recommended posts" similar ways as twitter. Therefore, a tab with filtered posts (e.g. most liked, innovative, controversial) will help to discover contents (on meritocracy) than current upvoted (payment) system, similar to Netflix's/Redbox's suggested movies. The discovery can be done with ML/AI/human curators. These techniques will improve on learned history.
Therefore, my proposal is to add few more upvote options other than reward/flag such as like, dislike, controversial, innovative etc. Also, some tabs/filters that will publish those posts based on those parameters, similar to reddit's controversial.
I think a fixed 1 cent vote for like/great/happy/neutral, negative 0.1 cent for dislike/anger/sad, 1 cent for controversial etc. can be implemented. A user will have 10/20/30 (perhaps based on reputation) such votes per daily regardless of SP they hold. People sometimes never vote due to limit of their vote power (VP) or already exhausted VP. But with this type of VP, posts can be discovered in numerous algorithmic ways, such as most liked or controversial post.
Logistics
The Moderated discussion will take place at 11AM EST (this is NYC time) Saturday November 18. This I believe is 16:00 UTC time. @minnowsupport will moderate the discussion.
It will take place in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network Discord channel: https://discord.gg/dpGVBcy
The Minnow Support Project has created a streaming internet radio station called mspwaves. We'll broadcast the event live and save a recording for the block later.
Typed in questions and discussion by the audience will happen here: https://discord.gg/BS8WTzM
You can listen to the show in the PALnet discord room here: https://discord.gg/pGHjVtc
You can listen to the show live on air at mspwaves.com/listen.
Thanks for reading my post!
@riseofth
Cryptocurrency Miner since 2013, occasional Trader and Blogger