RE: Some thoughts regarding layer 2 & layer 1 curation
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I don't think it's entirely bad. We need to change how it's is done. Have more options to customize how your vote is automated. If I had more HP I would be taking advantage of it to grow my account. As my account grows I invest in more projects. I don't post a lot if at all because of mental health. Having these services are beneficial for people who don't have much of a following because of not enough engagement. It's nice to know that I have a guaranteed vote of a certain value when I do post. If we force engagement we lose the quiet ones that want to read but not talk.
For example there was a streaming platform I was a mod on. They had a chest that gave out rewards for watching a stream. One group abused this because they were in a poor country. As they tried to combat the abuse they slowly destroyed what made the platform great. As a result everyone made less because there wasn't as much going around. Everyone lost because the platform decided to change who was responsible for filing the chest. As a result it changed who was getting abused. The amount of times I had to mute/ban because of that change was ridiculous. It created a very toxic environment because the abusers never left, they just changed their tactics.
We shouldn't take away this feature because people are abusing. Because I think we will lose a group of people that aren't abusing it, that brings benefit to the platform. We should be focusing on making the abuse have less impact over stopping it. Since they will just find something else to exploit.
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Not entirely sure what part exactly you're pointing it, I'm guessing automated voting? That's been generally fine, although there was a service that would quite literally pair you up with others just to exchange votes and that's not good. A lot of people hopped on it and later proved to be here for the wrong reasons.
We're all here for rewards and stake, we can't deny that. There's however a difference to how you grow your account and post rewards shouldn't constantly be the same and from the same voters else there's very little point to curaiton to begin with. Everyone could just make a post as a placeholder to distribute inflation with one another while excluding newcomers and those putting in the effort to want some rewards for their time and contributions regardless of their stake and past earnings.
Nothing should be a guarantee is my point, similar to how our posts are earning a fraction of HBD as they did at the top of the market, you shouldn't constantly earn the same amount of HP regardless of what you post. Autovoting is okay in moderation and we definitely need more encouragement for manual voters as that also takes time and effort to make trending and distribution of inflation wider and to more users compared to autovoting without the occasional updates on who's on the receiving end of them.