One of the primary goals of Steem’s reward system is to produce the best discussions on the internet
I have read Steemits whitepaper over and over, each time picking up on more and more. The quote above was taken from page 16.
So Steemit want to produce the best discussion on the internet but the problem is, finding them. To produce the best discussions, we need the best articles and I have found some awesome authors writing top notched article and really engaged curators that are commenting and engaging with these authors and rewarding the posts with votes.
Why Do We Need a Contribution Score?
There are now over 1M registered accounts on Steemit. However many of these are bots, or services, or scammers and cheaters. @steemclearners and @cheetah work hard to fight spam, along with many others fighting to save the rewards pool. But some accounts are finding ways around it, or open multiple accounts. Then you also have the circle jerks whose reach is limited to a small few accounts.
With all of these problems finding truly engaged people on the STEEM blockchain can be difficult. There are tools to sort and filter content, but it can be rather difficult to find consistent steemains. Consistent as in they are working towards the goal of producing the ‘best discussions on the internet’, that spread their engagement far and wide, that post quality content and comments and have a long term vision of STEEM.
We have seen the successful results with @abh12345 league of engagement and my Indonesia league of engagement. However these leagues are limited to opt in and many people on Steemit never see the posts and so don’t get involved.
In addition to all of this, competition is coming to STEEMIT. Once such example is ONO. ONO are currently running an on boarding process, where 300K people will be invited to the app prior to open launch. They are currently boasting 285K users with 65% retention rate.
Retention is a massive problem on Steemit and there are many factors involved in the disappointing rates I previously published. So many accounts are bots, there are delays in registration, some people lose their keys and open new accounts and some people are just grabbing account names while they can.
With the ONO on boarding process, all of these problems are eliminated as they are using a multiple step identification process, and they also have their own contribution score.
There are other platforms to that are rewarding crypto currency to content creators and curators, such as Wildspark and Brave.
The STEEM Contribution Score Table
To help solve some of the problems identified above I am currently developing a STEEM Contribution Score Table as a resource for you to find the most active and engaging people on the STEEM Blockchain and I am looking for feedback to help refine the scores.
The table will be published on our new @steemcommunity witness website…schhhhh because you are getting a sneak preview. You can access and interact with the report here
http://steemcommunity.org/steemit-contribution-score-table/
Important Notes and Questions:
1. We have created an exclusion lists of accounts that are not included. These are a combination of @steemclearners blacklist, @buildawhale blacklist and an exclusion list created by myself. (This exclusion with full details will be published at a later stage)
2. The score calculation is a secret, if I tell you I will have to kill you. However it does include the following data points.
- Number of Posts made
- Number of direct Comments left of post
- Number of Replies to comments
- Number of replies to replies
- Character count on posts
- Character count on comments
- Number of Votes Made
- Number of Self Votes
- Number of Distinct authors voted for
- Total witness votes cast(current value)
- STEEM powered up
These data points aim to capture positive activity on the STEEM Blockchain that encourages true engagement, discussions and long term vision. Each data points is weighted with my secret formula. This list is subject to change.
Do you think there are data points missing that would result in a more fair contribution score?
3. The table shown today is based on yesterday’s data. Do you think it would be more accurate and fair to have this table calculated on the previous week’s data?
How the Contribution Score Table Might be Used
As the STEEM Contribution Score Table identifies the people that engage most with the STEEM blockchain in a positive way, this table can be used in a number of way and not limited too
- Find the most awesome people to follow
- Find the most awesome people to engage with
- Find people worthy of up votes, additional rewards or even gifts
- Find people to delegate to
So there you have it, the outline for this project. As I said, you are getting a sneak preview and this is not the final workings. You will need to keep an eye on @steemcommunity account for launch when I am happy with the calculations, however I do feel it will continue to evolve.
I’m so looking forward to your responses and feedback on this, please do leave a comment below.
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