I just had an idea while reading one of the comments in @krnel's posts where @bryian-imhoff said:
Perhaps Steemit needs to look to integrate an autovoting system directly into the site and educate new users on it.
I'm thinking an even better idea is to make it into blockchain logic. Instead of "autovote" it could be called "patronize". Like to frequent as a customer, e.g.: restaurants remaining open in the evening were well patronized.
If you set a patronage rule for an author, it's just like autovoting for them whenever they post, or under certain criteria and power slider. Patronage would use voting power the moment posts are written and returns curation claims just like voting. The difference is that no operations are created. No blockchain bloat. If you have 50 autovotes, that's 50 vote operations. But if you have 50 patrons, the blockchain logic can deduce what the votes would have been.
An added benefit is, if people patronize up front, if someone is opposed to the patronization schedule, they can negate (reverse patronize?) them before any posts are written.
Interesting, resteeming for discussion.
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good idea... sounds like a subscription.
an author will get my votes automatically if i had subscribed to his/her blog.
then good writers who had accumulated some subscribers might begin to see a stable stream of income.
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Interesting concept.
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I don't like it, because it'll result in the same authors always getting the same upvotes. That's nice in some ways, but not when we are trying to build an information marketplace, where real life users are meant to read the content.
Plus, why would I even want to do this?
I think the only upvote that matters to me, an author, is an upvote that a real human pressed only after reading, and enjoying, my article.
Anything else is a platitude, which cheapens the concept of a vote, as well as the entire Steemit platform. Long-term, this idea is not ideal, compared to mandatory "scroll to the bottom before voting" type behavior, which will force a person to actually read, or at least be at a computer, in order to scroll down all the way to the vote button.
This defeats all bots, and forces all upvotes to be actual button presses from a human. In the short term, this will make Steemit a ghost town, but long term, if we can get 500,000 daily users or so, the votes will still be plentiful, but instead of bot-ridden, they will all be authentic votes from real people.
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