Reputation And A Few Thoughts
The one thing that has been broken on Hive for years has been the reputation. It literally is the opposite in many ways to what it should be. In the past many used bid bots and this increased the number of votes and rewards and basically paid their way to a higher reputation.
I watched the latest @leofinance video and didn't realise it would be so long, but well worth the view as this time they covered so much stuff. I am not that technical so understanding how and where the thinking is going gives you some sort of insight.
The one part that I picked up on was the idea of a Leo leaderboard which would be similar to your Hive ranking for reputation, but for Leo only. The name reputation sounds as though it will be dropped for leaderboard, but then again nothing wrong with reputation if it reflects the score correctly. Maybe Hive will adopt this new system if everything works out which I hope they do. A ranking or reputation score to reflect what you do or how valuable you are to a community makes perfect sense.
The ideas mentioned would be on your stake as that is very important obviously as it influences so many things. The other was page views on your posts which I think could be fairer than post rewards as if one or two big stake holders vote each other or a particular user regularly then it would sway the score too heavily.
What I think is also important and wasn't raised was the number of comments the post makes as engaging with other members of the community is vitally important as it says something about what you are writing as well. How many posts on Hive have any comments these days and a comparison with Leo is an eye opener. A post with many comments I believe finishes the post off as it raises new ideas and could lead to other posts offering another angle not thought of. Receiving comments is a reward on it's own in many ways as it tells you people are reading what you have written.
Comments adds to the time spent on the site per user so the more everyone gets engaging with others the better the overall Leo ranking becomes. I am sure this will also impact the ad revenue each month or maybe not. Activity is the key though and an active user who is posting frequently plus commenting and voting surely must score highly on any type of new ranking.
I am just happy that the team is looking at things that are currently broken and being pro active making them right. The beauty about the leaderboard is the criteria on what it will be based on can be tweaked to get it right. Maybe it will take a few months to hit on the right balance as the community is still small with enough active users to be able to play around and get it as close to perfect as possible.
I don't think anyone takes their Hive reputation seriously and having a decent rep in Leo may mean something after all. There are so many criteria that one can use that fits in with what Leo is about and another reason why Leo is leading the way. Where have these guys been hiding and it is just so refreshing to see things happening for once.
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