The problem
In order to keep Utopian a fair platform that rewards those who deserve it the most, these two steps are of first importance:
Filtering the contributions according to the guidelines. That is the work that we (moderators) do for a small share of the rewards. I have posted my recommendations regarding the moderation process yesterday and @elear is already taking some into account, he's really eager to make the platform perfect!
Rewarding the contributions according to their quality. That's the job of Utopian Bot, say hi!
The issue with this is that although I'm happy to get a 82% vote, the bot quickly gets tired and its Voting Power goes down quickly. If we check @utopian-io Voting Power here, it is at 50.28% as I'm writing this. Too bad losing half of the rewards, isn't it?
One possible solution
Each day the bot gets back 20% of its voting power, which corresponds to 10 full votes.
Let's say we attribute some of this voting power to each of the categories (obviously development and ideas would weight more than translation because of the quantity of post/ quantity of work on these categories), but to oversimplify let's say that each category gets the equivalent of a full vote every day.
This has two advantages:
- The equivalent of 2 full votes are unused : the bot Voting Power will slowly increase (+4%/day)
- Each category is independent regarding funding (right now Ideas is killing it)
Now, how to implement that, will you ask?
The only way to do it exactly would be to stop the upvotes once the threshold passed, but that would be a bad idea to set an arbitrary time to reset the threshold. A better way would be to give an estimation on what the vote should be, given the past votes, using for example a moving average.
I will give an example with a moving average of 3 days (real time TBD). This example shows all the votes from D-3 to today, in the Development category:
Let's say the bot initially wanted to give me an 82% upvote. Regarding that example of the past three days, it should give me a (82/1.25)% = 65.6%
Since this would work by estimation, we wouldn't get the perfect amount of desired vote for each category but we would draw closer.
Hope I explained that clearly enough, I'm quite tired right now =p
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