Last month I logged into https://steem-engine.com and created the ENGAGE token. The idea was to reward people who engaged with me with a little token of appreciation, with no expectations that the token would hold any monetary value. Surprisingly though, they are worth something - not much, but I see a $ sign and a positive value..
DRAMA up 40% on Steem, who would have guessed :)
A week or so later, I issued some ENGAGE based on some criteria that had been used previously to rustle up some pie charts and graphs, which were in the main, snapped up like hot cakes. The criteria is below, and the list of receivers in the link above.
(1) Most comments typed to me (ever)
(2) Most text typed to me (ever)
(3) Most text in 2019 (must be an Engagement League member)
(4) Most positive phrases (defined by me and secret) added to the blockchain (must be an EL member)
(5) Big fish supporters keeping me out of real work
That worked for starters, and I had planned to continuing issuing ENGAGE based on the Engagement League results and, on an adhoc basis when I saw some good/interesting/useful engagement in Post commentary. This has happened, but not nearly enough, and basically the reason is that it is:
- Time-consuming to issue the token
- Time-consuming to find (a bit like when curating) those comment gems
Number 1 cannot be helped at present, but will perhaps be solved by code in the future when I've worked out a solid method for 2. And this is where I'd like some feedback and ideas.
Basically, I don't want to be the only person deciding where the token goes, I don't have the time and think that (stealing the idea from dRama), the community should help decide where the 'real' engagement is.
For me this is in the commentary, not the amount of commentary, but the usefulness or quality. This is tough to measure by code, and needs human attention.
So the initial idea is to select a small (but easily open to expansion) group of people who get stuck into the comments on posts to be able to select/mark that comment for reward. In doing this, the curator and the post author would also get a share.
Thoughts on this?
And, do you have any other ideas?
I'd still like to be able to offer information in exchange for ENGAGE and people that have requested charts have been using them for post material and generally making their 'money' back.
This is today's offering for those that are interested:
Some 'old' names there!
Comments that provide good input and feedback to the distribution of ENGAGE will receive some ENGAGE :)
Cheers!
Asher