It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, once it has been tweaked a bit, over time.
I'm in a somewhat similar space to @notconvinced in that "it looks good on paper," but I'd be interested in seeing how it plays out when actually implemented. Still, it's great to see the community come up with these ideas and initiatives... especially if they are designed to help engagement, which I believe is essential to the success of a community, in the long run.
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It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out, once it has been tweaked a bit, over time.
Precisely. Time and adjustments are crucial factors.
We're looking to build a model that can be replicated successfully and that doesn't happen in a month, or three. I'm very grateful to the people who helped with building the project out to this stage (starting back in the middle of November when I started reaching out to people, or maybe even way back in July when we first kicked off POBLeus). I'm sure they'll tell you, this is only the beginning.
especially if they are designed to help engagement, which I believe is essential to the success of a community, in the long run.
I'm with you there. I find the polarization between low and high stakeholders has an adverse effect on genuine engagement. If we can design a distribution funnel that bridges this gap and addresses the common flaws of the PoB/DPoS system (typically the encouragement of greed and centralised thinking) we should see an increase in genuine engagement, imo.
I think back to some of the early days on the "old" chain where there was engagement and one of the fairly solid ways for largely invisible newcomers was to simply cruise around and authentically engage and when you were patient, you could not only build your account because you frequently earned a small reward from an upvote, but people saw you engage on higher profile posts... and it all fed on itself.
Of course, this was happening within a nascent culture of upvoting worthy comments before that all went down the tubes of greed. And that seems to be the eternal challenge... the idealists seem unable to persevere in the face of the greedy over time. So these experiments like VYB are very hopeful, to me.
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It feels like the old times with the curation but unlike the old times we won't see the battles.