Hi guys!
So I was just thumbing through my feed and saw that Dtube has explained the recent change in upvoting as well as explained those new rewards we have been noticing in our wallets!
Ok, so first things first, the curation!
Ok Dtube, I love you, but for the sake of keeping it real...
I think everyone noticed that the voting pattern changed. I just don't think anyone wanted to talk about it because no one likes a speculator, and we wouldn't want you guys to think we were just all bitching again! Everyone was more curious than anything! Now we have an explanation! YAY!
Ok so basically, these were the announced changes to curation. There will now be a Discord bot that makes the curation job a little easier! (which is great!)
The bot will:
Detect reposts and plagiarism and block votes for those
(So, for those of you recycling old content, I guess you still can, but it won't get an upvote. You also won't get an upvote for taking something that belongs to someone else. This is great because right off the bat it will eliminate at least a small swath of videos that should never have been considered in the first place. Less videos to comb through means that the good ones will get more attention! Win-win!)
Create a 15 minute decision window where all curators can contest an upvote
(I am assuming this means that the bot sets aside content that it considers eligible for an upvote, and will automatically upvote it unless the curator realizes it's a no-go? Or does that mean that if one curator upvotes something, then another curator has the option to contest it? Please correct me in the comments, I am only going off of what I can only assume this to mean!)
The more curators agree that a video is good, the stronger the vote will be
(Power in numbers! This is good, because if there is maybe a curator who doesn't exactly LOVE your stuff, there are still a few others whose decision is taken into consideration, so that's a positive!)
Lowers the vote strength depending on how many votes the author already received this week
(This is the only contentious change that I see, depending on how many votes is considered in the "how many votes" part. I think that if a creator makes great content, that the amount their votes are worth shouldn't drop just because they produce great content. Now, I'm talking about producers who maybe make 1-2 vids a day, and can potentially understand a limit on upvotes, but I can also see people just making multiple accounts if the bot is sorting things out via account and not person. So, I am not even sure how effective it will be. I may not be understanding this right though either, so I'm not sure there.)
Waits to never vote earlier than 30 minutes
(I thought this was already a thing, haha)
(Yay transparency!)
Then we have the Beneficiary Rewards.
Basically, from what I understand, to help offset the 25%, Dtube is giving back to those that upvote Dtube stuff! You can do it manually, you can do it through a curation trail (I belong to three) or you can delegate SP directly to Dtube and they will use it to upvote material for you, thereby earning you SP back!
Pretty cool stuff.
I guess what I remain a bit confused about is if the curation team then will remain round the clock, or if we are only going to get hits if we upload at certain times? Like, if the bot is doing the curation, and picks a vid, and there aren't any curators on to approve it, will it get skipped, or? How does that work? I could have gotten some of this wrong though, so make sure to ask Dtube if you have any questions.
I just made this post to kind of start a dialogue, and because I know people may have questions about this very thing, but may not want to ask.
Ok, so Dtube, I just want to say thank you for all you guys do, and for listening to your users, and trying to incorporate new creators! This is a total learning process for everyone, but we all appreciate what you guys do!
:) :) :)
Toodle-oo Kangaroo
xx-Beth
