It's been more than a month ago since I shared the last Dagashards/Dagamium standing and with the 
As you can see especially 
Overall I'm very happy with how the viewer rewards pan out, I like the system since it's fair and promotes people tuning into the website.
As we enter the cold season, we're seeing a new influx of streamers and many of you are really picking up the grind. Some of you might remember me saying that I wanted Dagamers to be more engaging by this time, and I think we've managed to achieve that.
With more streamers, we're starting to face the luxury problem of limited voting power. To address this, I'm reflecting on some ideas—or better yet, rules—to determine upvote weight.
Here are some variables I want to implement in determining Hive Power distribution:
: How much beneficiary rewards does receive from the streamer?: How much beneficiary rewards does get from that streamer?The beneficiary rewards help us stack HBD faster, which in turn allows us to reward DGM holders more quickly, pass bigger upvotes and cover costs.
While it hasn't been a major issue, I've noticed that some people, especially those following Dagamer's curation trail, are actively spreading more upvotes, while others only upvote themselves.
This isn't as problematic as it might sound because beneficiary rewards still indirectly help other streamers. However, I believe that we grow together, and supporting each other accelerates our collective growth.
This doesn't mean you should upvote every single stream, especially if you don't like the content. But since the main goal of Dagamers is building a community, upvotes are a metric of how much you support other streamers. Even if you consistently upvote the same few streamers, it shows you've found "your people" (assuming there's no abuse, of course).
Supporting other streamers is great, but if you're not also building your own account over time, you're not fully contributing to the community's growth.
Some of us are really grinding, but from experience, I know that shorter and fewer streams don't necessarily mean lower quality. Some streams take much more preparation than just putting on a clean T-shirt and firing up OBS.
To ensure quality is rewarded, we could prioritize the first stream from each streamer every 24 hours and give smaller rewards to additional streams. This could balance things out, as those who stream more will also contribute more through beneficiary rewards to
Anyway, nothing is set in stone and it is nothing more than an idea at the moment. I'm sure that there are many other things that I'm not keeping into account nor have I an idea how much weight each point should be given.
What's important for me is also that you will never get "banned" from upvotes, at least not for anything non-abusive ;). Changes like these are meant to be, and feel, rewarding for putting effort into building, not punishing for those with less power or time.
