With the implementation of steemit Promoted content there has been much talk on post visibility and curation. The thought for an up vote multiplier came up in a comment by @mark-waser in response to @calaber24p's post Better New User Experience saying essentially that we need to give more power to new users... in order to make them feel like they have an impact on the platform and to keep them around.
Now I do agree that most new users may not have the best luck or experience during their first couple of posts. I understand it may be frustrating to work on a post for hours and have it amount to $.05 or even $0.00 in rewards. This doesn't mean we should be giving every new user the ability to earn more from less powerful votes or even give more with less power. There is a way for newer, steem lacking, users to contribute more effectively and that would be an UpVote Multiplier option. At the cost of their Voting Power % any user could multiply their vote up to 10 fold. This would allow them to give a post everything they got when it comes to curation and visibility.
How would this work?
Possible Solutions
Only for users under 100M Vested (Current Minimum for Slider Voting Percentage)
Using the multiplier would dramatically decrease your voting power
I think this would be important to have the multiplying for your vote be a serious decision and would limit the use of its potential $ power.
Example Formula below: Regular Vote % Cost = Rv | Multiplier = M | New Voting % Cost = NRv
NRv = (Rv(M)) + ((M)2)
I'll use myself as an example
Base: I just Upvoted a post and it cost me 1 % of my voting power and the post received $.11
If I were to give this vote a 4x Multiplier using the above formula (my voting % cost would be)
12% = (1 * 4) + (4*2)
This would result in $.44 going to the upvoted post
If I were to give this vote a 10x Multiplier using the above formula (my voting % cost would be)
30% = (1 * 10) + (10*2)
This would result in $1.10 going to the upvoted post!
You can see at this point my vote is worth a hell of a lot more and the post have a much higher chance of trending
especially when compiled onto of other votes
This was by giving a bigger reward to a post it will cost you.
Potential UI designs for the Upvote Multiplier
Although I think this would end up creating massive rewards (too high) I designed UI designs for users who currently have the pop up slider
As you can see in the designs I also agree with @summon on his idea for having the % editing able for more accurate voting
Some potential problems?
Users overusing the Multiplier and limiting themselves to a very small number of votes per 24 hours.
This may cause a lot less interactions (upvotes and comments) overall on the platform.
However I feel as though (Myself Included) many users only upvote a few times a day right now and new users from lack of ability to impact the upvoted post , don't up vote at allI really want to open this up to a solid discussion so please comment and get it rolling
Look forward to the comments, concerns, ideas, concepts , and everything in between.
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