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Ok, i think I understand correctly, and this would make sense in some respects. 

My main issue would be (if I understand correctly), is a user with many accounts downvoting a post.  Would the above mean that each account in the trail would carry more weight to bring the post down?

I like to see concepts for change/improvement, cheers!

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This is a very interesting idea,  especially if it can achieve the desired results.

GREAT frickin idea.  I would love to see this happen. (especially since I'm a 27 rep still)  day 3 on steemit and 2 for utopian.  This is the first post I have read and I hope to see more like it.  Thank you very much for this effort. 

if it ain't broke don't fix it until it is.

I think you are on to something ...  

I think there will need to be at least three factors at play in the calculation.  

- Number of posts/time period.  (Historically, 100% for the first 4 posts/24 hours, then that decreased as you posted more)
- Reputation of poster.  As far as I can tell, the system is not taking advantage of reputation.
- Exponential Author Reward Method

Steemit is all about the game theory. So, every time you change the game, the gamers will change their strategy.  But, this has the possibility of spreading the reward pool a little further.

I like this idea and find it interesting. I assume that lost rewards are returned back to the reward pool? Such an implementation would definitely curb bidding bot use and would encourage a more decentralized distribution to smaller accounts. 

There aren't any downsides that I can think of right now. Sure, a bad actor can create a bot-net and farm horizontally, but they can do that now. This would eliminate a lot of vertical farming of rewards by larger users. I don't ever expect something like this to ever get implemented, but I think that it could be a useful addition. Although, I also want to see if someone can find a good attack against it.

What bothers me about this, is that people get envious of high paid posts, and it gets easier to downvote them. If people are successful they should not be brought down in my opinion.

I like this idea. How common is it for their to be forks that allow new rules to apply to the platform? This seems like a particularly big change. 

As a newbie, I've got no problem with big changes, since I'm not exactly comfortable in a well-worn groove on here. But folks on here a long time may be threatened by the idea of any change to something as fundamental as the rewards they get. 

I've seen some witnesses who create long-form content that obvious takes some real effort making well over $500 per post. So this would negatively affect their earnings, as well as reigning in the abusers. Still, as you said, even if it isn't the final idea, it is good to start thinking along these lines. 

Maybe like this, but then at a certain breakpoint the rewards for upvotes start climbing again, so that anyone with really a lot of support can be rewarded for that.

Wow! This makes a lot of sense. Steemit is a great platform but there’s a long way still to reach a good community point.
I’m seeing more and more users’ suggestions and this is what will drive the change.
Thanks for this! You have my support on this one :)

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Absolutely excellent. Re-distrobution of the reward structure is imperative for encouraging new members to stay. This is a good start but dont think it goes far enough, Im not sure what else could be done though. I was shocked at the 12% retention figure being bandied about. I personally would also like to see a 4 post a day limit reintroduced to stop outright spamming as well as people using the power of the downvote to hit bad content. Problem is people are scared to flag people with higher reps which i think also needs looking at.
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Interesting, i must say

Good to have people like you. 👍 These discussions are vital for the future of Steemit. Thanks.

nice post

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Very interesting. I can see this breaking a few 'business models' that are in operation on Steemit - though I'll need to think on it for longer before I could see more of the possible implications.

Good idea. I had this idea considering BOT upvoting and the reward pool:
What if:

  1)  We had a random possible occurring SP maintenance fee for accounts on a regular basis (like 1 SP monthly) to disincentivise multiple accounts (Steem burned, like Promoted posts burn SBD) that maybe only sometimes affects accounts that have voted in the time period (that month) & perhaps the maintenance fee doesn't apply to accounts that meet a random reason (using an algorithm with an unguessable randomness that changes each month) like below 100 SP 1 month and even or odd SP balance another month (to prevent gaming the system) + always if you're under a certain SP like 25SP to prevent bankrupting accounts?
  2)  A “Random Selection” page along with Trending/New etc that selects posts from accounts according to an algorithm (randomized)? This way the bot-users don't go crazy with a million bots and minnow posts can show up and have a chance to be voted onto the Trending page.

The result would be that you can use bots, but it might result in you losing more than gaining. Minnows could make the Trending page. Plus, it's fair and random so it doesn't unfairly punish and if you have idle accounts then they are unaffected. People would have to try hard to put out good content because if they put out junk, then they wouldn't be upvoted and they would be subjected to stagnation at the low threshold of 25SP (for example) until they learned to improve their posts. ? Just an idea. What do you all think?

My suggestion for upvoting is :
  
 a:)   when upvoting other people content :
            every person's vote should be worth the same amount regardless of steem 
            power (and one person should be able to vote for other people content more than couple of times 
            a day . if you like somebody's content you should be able to upvote it)
   b:)   when self-upvoting , take steem power into count and maybe limit the number of times per day ..

in another words , everybody would have some chance to make money plus you would avoid having 2-3 power players upvoting each other and earning 100's per post ...

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