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RE: 📉 Steemonomics 💡 Don't let Your Votes go to Dust! - TIL: rewards < $0.02 are not paid out!
I did not know that. I thought it was suggested but never implemented. Interesting.
I don't think I would mind paying a fee for every post I make (if it's reasonable) but I wonder what the numbers would actually be and how it would impact the blockchain.
It is definitely something to think about.
I think the lowest possible fee of say as little as 0.001SBD per kB of data in posts or comments would already make a huge impact against the average spam without coming at a serious cost for genuine exchange. Of course this would only be useful under the condition of getting rid of this dust thing as far as possible.
I wouldn't want to say transaction fees are neccessary per-se, but they are certainly a better tool to combat spam than preventing "dust" payouts and they might come with a few other perks, too. I bet a lot of comments would be a bit more thoughtful and promotion spam would slow down a lot, maybe it would even foster the culture of mutual support even more if we knew it came at a small cost to post those thoughts...
But well, maybe this debate is just too far detached from how steem claims it's fee-less protocol as it's major USP.
I have a feeling that you've been thinking about solutions for this a lot. Or you're just good at improvisation :) Yes, that would hurt spammers, but only to some degree or extent. Not much would be changed I fear.
Normal and valid users would think twice about posting crap which would be a good thing.
I guess there wouldn't be: I upvote, you upvote comments as much, or: great post! upvote me at link etc.
Well, the problems surrounding the governance and token distribution in a DPoS chain is very intriguing to me, so I've thought about these concepts and their economic aspects a lot ever since I started diving deeper into steemit. Quite frankly, I love this platform for the social experiment it's conducting more than for the monetary rewards it provides.