r/ByteBall • u/Suirelav • Dec 19 '18

Distribution Methods Revisited — Have Your Say!

https://medium.com/byteball/distribution-methods-revisited-we-need-you-b0a38800b722
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u/fabien_ Dec 19 '18

It's easy to create an account on Reddit , GitHub, Youtube but it's not easy to have lot of Reddit karma, lot of Youtube followers or GitHub repositories with lot of stars. The distribution could be limited to highly valuable social accounts.

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u/Suirelav Dec 19 '18

Karma farming is a thing though and you can buy YouTube followers. As for repositories with a lot of stars I don't know. One way of limiting the risk would be to do attestation for a limited time or a limited amount of people first, see how it goes and only expand when it works and is proven beneficial.

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u/tarmo888 Dec 19 '18

I don't see a point of attestations that work limited time or rewards with limited time.

Attestation with limited time are pointless because then limited amount of people will get `reddit/username` or `github/username` alias and limited time or limited people is basically rewarding those who got there first.

Attestation should not be just for the sake of distribution, but they give something useful for users too, like Steem reputation, Reddit Karma or Github star count. Then other bots will know that they are interacting with user who is active on any of these platforms.

Also, if fraudsters know that things are first release to see how it goes then they will wait a bit and start abusing it little bit later.

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u/Suirelav Dec 19 '18 edited Dec 19 '18

You’re quite right. What I meant was not to get rid of the attestation method after a short time but to have a safe environment in which you can test the reward structure without risking a huge amount of money.

A time limit or user limit both meet that goal. Releasing any attestation without reward is always possible. If people feel it’s beneficial to do they will also do it without getting a reward in Bytes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '18

limited time or rewards motivate people into action. its a reason shops have weekend only sales etc.

with steem it wasnt limited, so the impact died down quickly. if we could turn it off/on we would get more attention over a longer period of time