All App Developers Out There, Listen Up! - Help Your Users Increase Their Curation Rewards

in #steem5 years ago

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I'm big on curating comments. I love partaking in discussions in the comments. I also want to monetize my conversations because attention is money on Steem. After HF20, however, the rules have changed in such a way as to have a portion of the curation rewards be returned to the pool if one votes before 15 minutes have passed since the post in question was published. The purpose of this change was to reward curators by discouraging authors from self-upvoting immediately thus making it possible for curators to beat the author to curating the post.

However, this change of rules had the unintended consequence of discouraging users from immediately upvoting each other's comments in a discussion thread because doing so would result in a portion of their voting power being completely wasted (because a portion of the curation rewards would go to neither the author of a comment nor the upvoting conversation partner). Either you accept losing curation rewards or you wait before you curate and often (at least I do) forget about it as you go about doing something else in the meantime. This is highly annoying.

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This is possible to fix without touching the rules of the blockchain at all. All that needs to be done is that app developers implement delayed comment upvoting, timing the upvote at exactly 15 minutes if the comment is less than 15 minutes old. You could make it optional. That way, you could upvote naturally in the course of a live conversation. Of course, the app would have to run in the background in the user's device and the device would have to be on and online. But mobile apps usually are. In a web application, it's impossible to stop the user from closing an inactive tab if the app is running in it, but this feature would still help. I'd love this feature and I think most people would. So, to gain a competitive edge, I suggest you implement it.

If you got this far, I'd like you to give this idea careful thought, criticize it in the comments if need be, read the comment section and resteem it you think it's really worth sharing. I think it would be nice to see it implemented.

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