A test to found out whether incentivize Q&A as a concept can bring participation to a whole new level.
Install Byteball and connect with Know-it-all bot
Still debugging the bot a bit because of variable payment on the DAG, but think this is the core of it. Luckily the contest allows buggy / crashing code, it is here.
This bot could even be a good way to distribute bytes, it gets harder to game the reward as users number increase, because not only are voters selected randomly without any bias like balance size or history, but voters need to do work answering and voting within a racing deadline. Best of all voters are actual participants on the network, like a Captcha that gives useful answer.
Aggregated data from questions and answers could provide insight on where users have frequent questions, like Stackoverflow.
My hope is that more conversation related to Byteball will move to my bot, so we don't have to spread our attention on 2 telegram groups, multiple slack channels and etc. Basically to consolidate short form communication to the bot, and so contributors taking questions can also get reward.
Since this bot deals with micro-transactions, the more transactions this bot can do, the faster the confirmation time for the entire network too.
Best of all, it kinda fun to use, changing votes and guessing which answer is going to win.
I was about to run this bot on an iCore 2 machine with 4Gb RAM and 40Gb SSD, each question only takes about 1K to store depending on the length of the question, and another 1k block to store user states. Since I am storing everything as files using node-persist, I have a few advantages which I have only seen with my bot has so far:
