Here is a one-pager as requested by Kevinwong summarising my idea for hierarchical retrieval of valuable posts for Whales. What I propose is a hierarchical fishing-for-posts-system based on a hierarchical taxonomy of nested tags, hereinafter called a Tagsonomy.
Disclaimer: This idea is not intended to replace the system in place, but to be a supplement.
- When posting in addition to the existing 5 tags that can be filled in, 3 tags become mandatory for every poster, which represent a main category, a sub category and a sub-sub-category. These are pre-cooked according to an ontological taxonomy and have to be selected from a limited list.
- Each Whale is responsible for a main category. For instance main categories could be Business, News, Entertainment, Art, Lifestyle, Metasteemit (“about Steemit”) and Knowledge and Miscellaneous.
- A number of regular contributors with a high reputation (e.g. 70+), the Orcas, are in charge of a subcategory. They report to the whale of the category on which their subcategory is dependent by resteeming valuable posts in their subcategory, which had been resteemed by the dolphins in the sub-sub-categories belonging to their subcategory.
- A number of Dolphins with a reputation (e.g. 65-69) is in charge of a sub-sub-category. The Dolphins report to the orcas by resteeming valuable posts posted by Minnows and other Posters in their sub-sub-category.
- The higher ranking sub-categories and categories only contain posts resteemed by Dolphins and Orcas, respectively.
- The big advantage of this scheme is that tasks are delegated, which allows for that every post is at least evaluated once by a person specialised in that tag-field in a 24 hours timeframe. Whales will thus at least see once what the Dolphins and Orcas consider the crème-de-la-crème in addition to their normal screening process.
- With this ontological tagsonomy not only the quality of the screening process will improve, but it will also improve tremendously the searchability of the blockchain database.
- The assignment of a category and the appointment of an Orca or Dolphin need not be a top-down imposed decision, but could rather be a bottom-up process of volunteering for vacancies.
- An additional idea is to resteem only if there is some consensus (a number of upvotes or resteems depending on the level) from below so as to obey a certain threshold. Dolphins and Orcas could thus also horizontally at their level communicate via Steemchat to discuss such a consensus vote. There could also be a minimum time for allowing resteeming (e.g. 4 hours to see how a post is doing among the Steemit population). You can only post in sub-sub-categories.
- Dolphins, Orcas and Whales can re-classify a post if the tag-choice by the Poster does not reflect the content.
- The purpose of this scheme is that Dolphins and Orcas resteem (and not necessarily upvote) posts which they find in the "new" tab, because they think that these might be missed by the whales due to drowning in the mass. If this scheme promotes anything it is avoiding that valuable content drowns becuase it is not considered popular enough!
I hope you like this idea. If you do please upvote and/or -even better- resteem. Further suggestions are highly appreciated.