So currently we are discussing 24 hours vs 7 days payout and changing it to a single payout period. It is currently 24 hours and then 30 days. The 30 days does not attract much primarily due to the way the curation algorithm works I'd suspect. There is no benefit to the curation algorithm to up voting something after the first payout unless you REALLY like it, and you don't vote much. Since your voting power declines with each vote and regenerates over time people will tend to vote on the 24 hour activity because, they can get rewards. Those rewards are very minimal for most of us, but it still seems to be what happens.
Currently if you want to send someone a TIP you can do so in the form of steem, or steem dollars. It requires you do the following steps...
#1 - click on the menu icon.
#2 - click on wallet
#3 - click on the drop down menu next to your steem dollar or steem power amount
#4 - click on transfer
#5 - Type in the persons handle you want to transfer to.
#6 - Type in how much you wish to transfer
#7 - Type in an optional memo telling them why you transferred it
#8 - Click submit...
#9 - Go through whatever steps you need to get back to where you were reading.
If you REALLY like something you might do this. Yet it doesn't really cater to human nature in terms of doing things on IMPULSE.
I had an idea earlier as I was reading a post by @bacchist for the concept of a TIP button. I've thought about it a bit more and I would like to explain my idea and the reason behind it.
At the bottom of any post add the ability for one or two buttons to appear under the following conditions...
- Person reading post has steem in their wallet to spend - show Tip Steem button
- Person reading post has steem dollars in their wallet to spend - show Tip SBD button
If person clicks on it only ask them the AMOUNT and show them how much they have. They type the amount and click SUBMIT.
It could automatically fill out who it was to and put in the memo that it was a TIP for the Post name.
This would allow for impulse tipping, and it would make a very easy and convenient way to reward posts no matter how old they are. We could even do this on posts from today 10 years from now if we really wanted to.
It would reduce NINE steps I outlined to THREE with the added advantage of not taking you off to some other place on the website to do it. Click the button, type in the amount, click submit.
Right now people are using PROMOTE and burning SBD. This will not really do that, but it does provide a cool impulse way we can reward really old posts we like.
I optimized the idea down to only showing those buttons if you actually have steem or sbd to tip with. So if either of those are at zero balance it should not show the buttons.
That's my idea...
Steem On!
