Decreasing SPAM, Increasing Value: Introducing ReadCash Reputation

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3 years ago

Today I'm going to suggest a feature I named "Read.Cash Reputation", which aims to solve a lot of the problems the platform currently has.

Note that this is a suggestion from me to the community and the developers only, and I don't have any ties to the development team so it's only an idea.

Here are some of the things this new feature would do:

  • Decrease Spam Content;

  • Increase the Website's Reach;

  • Attract More Traffic;

  • Increase BCH Adoption Rates;

  • Stop Plagiarism;

  • Reward Valuable Users, Punish Bad Users or Leeches;

  • Decrease Trash and Clutter on the Platform;

  • Give people an objective way to see if a user is credible or not.

...among some other things, I'll explain throughout this article.

This is a feature I see bringing tons of benefits to the platform and to the BCH blockchain while having no side effects that I can think of.

So, let me explain how this would work.

The Read.Cash Reputation System: Here's How it Would Work!

The system would work by grading authors from 0 to 100. The image above shows an example of what this would look like.

I took the idea for the design from the design of reputation score from the Steem blockchain, but that's where the similarities end as the score has nothing to do with the score you can see on STEEM or Hive.

So, basically, you'd see a number from 0 to 100 next to a user's name. This would make it easy for you to detect good authoritative users, and credible sources, from trash, plagiarists, and spammers.

Not only that, but this number would also take into account the work you put in the platform and your contributions to it.

But then how would this score be calculated?

It would be an algorithm weighing the following factors:

  • The current algorithm being used by @TheRandomRewarder to detect quality and authority; (current system)

  • The tips and upvotes the users' content get on average or in total;

  • The downvotes the user receives;

  • The amount of traffic the users' articles bring in from Google or other external sources (rewarding people who bring traffic and attention to Read.Cash and BCH);

  • The active referrals with reputation over a certain limit (rewarding people who onboard people who actually produce value and stay onboard);

  • The amount of engagement promoted by the user (both the user engaging with the community and the community engaging with the user).

  • The amount of BCH being used to Tip and Boost Content (rewarding those who put BCH back into the system)

These are my initial suggestions, but of course, the system can be adjusted.

Now, let's analyze how this system could benefit Read.Cash

Decrease Spam Content: How Does the System Help?

Since I created the Bitcoin Cash Hub(0cd1), me and my mods @Pantera , @JonicaBradley, and @CryptoBabe have seen a lot of spam.

Not only that, but some SPAM really disguises itself as quality content - the bot sometimes analyzes it as exclusive content, it gets tipped, but the article itself upon human analysis shows itself to be trash.

Me and my mods can easily detect this, as can other humans, and that's the power of manual curation... however, spammers spam because the system isn't harsh enough.

With the new reputation system, the spammy users will have a visible low reputation score, and the low score will have a lot of implications that help isolate the spammer:

  • Through a visible reputation score on the low digits, even if the article looks good people will be extra critical of it and plagiarists won't get away with it like they do now.

  • Articles that are just trash filler content or promotional stuff that can avoid spam classification from the bot and people most of the time don't bother to report it, a low rep score can mean that user gets his posts isolated much like the "low rating" feature on spammer's comments

  • A visible low reputation score discourages people from doing spammy stuff or misbehaving with fear of hurting their rep.

  • Bad posts won't get tipped as much as good posts, so people who consistently make low-quality posts will have low average tips, therefore increasing overall quality.

Among other psychological variables related to having a visible rep score.

Increase the Website's Reach: Attracting More Traffic

By rewarding both active reputed referrals and the amount of traffic users' articles bring in from Google and external sources, we're promoting expansion and rewarding those who work hard to promote the platform and therefore the BCH blockchain with it.

We should try to make Read.Cash one of the main content platforms for Crypto, and that has to pass through dominating the search engines as far as crypto is concerned.

This reputation system can increase the work being done to expand the platform, and get more people onboard BitcoinCash, which helps the community and everyone involved with BCH.

Grade Users: Reward Valuable User, Punish Bad Users, Leeches, and Giving People a Way to See if a User is Valuable or Not!

With this new system, people will be able to distinguish between a user that gives back to the platform or that just leeches from it.

One person who promotes the platform, tips generously, puts money back by boosting, curates content, and engages with the community in a meaningful way will have a drastically different score from a person who doesn't do these things but has the same amount of tips, for example.

Another common problem is that plagiarists often get huge tips even though the content isn't theirs because people don't bother scanning the content for plagiarism - and the user looks like just another user.

With a visible Reputation Score, if people see a great article under a 0 Reputation Score writer, they will automatically be suspicious and are much less prone to being tricked.

This will also give people extra incentive to be invested into the blockchain and into the Read.Cash project, as having a higher credibility and authority score will give the writers' words more weight and influence.

What About Tips, Will Reputation Score Influence That?

My initial answer is that reputation score should not give you extra tipping benefits, it should be all about your reputation and showing your authority, credibility, and investment in the project.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't be surprised if the developers would decide that the highest the reputation of a user inside the platform, the more generous Rusty would get with that author - I wouldn't oppose this course of action either.

I think this reputation score could bring a lot of benefits not only to the platform but to the blockchain and token in general, plus it accommodates for expansion through external traffic and onboarding which is a nice plus.

The two people I know are highly involved in the development of Read.Cash as a project are @Read.Cash, of course, and @MarcDeMesel , so this time I'm tagging them both - who knows, they may find this suggestion valuable... I think we would collectively gain from this strategy, but I'm open to debate too.

Of course, it's just an idea from someone who doesn't know programming, so I don't know how complex this would be in terms of keyboard mashing, but the implications seem worth it.

Finally, I would also encourage you - the community - to discuss below as to what else should be considered with a system like this being implemented (just know that for now, it's a simple idea I've been playing with, with no ties whatsoever with the development team).

Would greatly appreciate the opinion of @Pantera and @JonicaBradley as well.

Cheers!

@MicroReylatos , @zekecuba , A-Coin, Thank you!

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Hi! What can you suggest about my case, I have been marked as spam for 3 weeks already. Though i assure everything I publish is not plagiarized. I do not personally know what happened and why I am marked as spam. I am trying to recover it since I still have a lot of works to publish but it seems like it is not visible to other readers and to the random rewarder as well. Hope you could help me. Thank you!

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3 years ago

Nice initiative! I would love to know my rating as well and strive hard to learn more. Hope read.cash would look into this. :) another great article Cryptomax. Always worth to read.

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3 years ago

I don't know a lot about the current system of read.cash. Certainly, it has disadvantages. A reputation system should be fine, but even that could be exploited by spammers. It will probably need a lot of time, but perhaps it could work. It will still require manual curation and research as there will be cases of users without deserving high reputation, but made it there artificially by exploiting the system.

Maybe a system like merit in bitcointalk could work better. Have a few users that are honest as reputation sources and raise reputation at a slow rate. Sustainability is key and raising reputation should require a longer time of having created actual value for read.cash. I can't agree or disagree with this proposal, as it is only read.cash that decides.

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3 years ago

A Merit system definitely would be a good middleground.

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3 years ago

For those who have been on the platform for a long time, this situation has been normalized with the creation of communities with responsible admins. They have an obligation to only pass on very good content, of course with the rating administration, this would involve more participation by Simon, who made it very clear in the past that Random Bot would have the function of assisting and also paying the creators of content but it is not always correct in this task since it is a robot but we who have communities have the right to examine this and only when the situation of Simon (creator and developer) of the website deciding to have more active participation here this could be solved but it would not be definitive, look that we already had spam here very persistent but now the situation has changed a lot, people created double / triple accounts just to earn points, which in the past was right worthwhile, accounts created with the sole purpose of damaging the platform but until now we are here if it improved it would be good but Simon would have to have a team of the vocation to help you ... But it will not happen so soon 🤷

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3 years ago

While the thought is great.But,wouldn't this make the system something like reddit and kind of a circlejerk.And some of the implementation could even have bad consequences. For starters, Having a rep and credibility system could influence readers to think the writing as logical or even legit. Let's say someone with high credibility writes something bad unintentionally or maliciously. This kind of would get traction as there rep is high and might influence people into thinking or repeting the wrong content to others. Secondly, The downvoting system.What happens, when someone writes something controversial or unpleasant but with actual value and logic behind it. Wouldn't that kind of content prompt people to downvote and essentially bury their thoughts even though it's worth thinking about.And this might even deter people from telling the truth as it would mean getting a bad rep. Thirdly, The engagement with user and community thing.Wouldn't that just make popular people more popular and thus bury new people and at the same make the entire platform abode for certain big fish. And people could just make agreeable articles thus a circlejerk and popular people could also just make trash content like in social media but still get a lot of engagement. These certain ideas just seem ticking bombs to me make the entire platform very onesided. These are just some thoughts I have on your ideas. I hope we as a community can find some ways to tackle these.Everyone please feel free to answer if you think I am roght or wrong or if you have a solution for these problems that I think will come with certain implementation of a rep based system.

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3 years ago

I understand what you are trying to say but there are also users who maybe posses great talent and are not seen or do not have the funds to boost their articles. I have personally dealt with this problem on many other blogging platforms, hopefully won't have to go through that here as well. So far, noise.cash is working good for me. Will try to also boost some of my articles from here as well. Besides that, everything sounds great to me.

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3 years ago

Thank you for your post, it feels like you care about Read. cash! I think every platform should have its own path. Not everything is so great on Hive and Steemit. There are advantages and disadvantages everywhere. What is the principal purpose of this platform Read.cash? Grow a crypto community or a regular social network where valuable content is rewarded by other participants? Reputation is not the best criterion for valuable content. Sometimes members with a high reputation abuse their position and start posting weak content of two or three phrases and no more. And other participants take an example from them and get a flag. I agree with you about plagiarism. Although few people understand what plagiarism is? And it is quite possible to explain that this is any content that you want to copy from the Internet. Participants should write what is born in their head. Read a lot of useful literature and tell it to other participants in their own words. People should be honest, respect the opinions of others, listen and hear others. If Read.cash has an owner, then he sets the rules, and we all participants must comply with them and none make claims. We need to create a very close-knit community, a microcosm in which everyone will be happy to live and help each other. The world outside is very cruel, so I would like to be kind and respectful here, and receive such respect from other the participants. Thanks.

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3 years ago

Hello my friends)))

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3 years ago

Well written I agree that this would help to improve read.cash. noise.cash had already instituted a rating system and things they're have greatly improved. Keep it up 👍

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3 years ago

Appreciate your work good information I haven't been active much so now I can understand where are my mistakes and what I can do to improve them thank you for this informative information...

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3 years ago

Sad about spam being tipped like a quality post .. manual curation rules...

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3 years ago

I agree that this would help to improve read.cash. noise.cash had already instituted a rating system and things they're have greatly improved.

I also believe proven plagiarism should get a negative score. Or the inability to be scored and remain at zero.

Perhaps, even a different color for plagiarists.

I like your thoughtfulness retarding this platform. I'm sure the developers and supporters appreciate it as well.

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3 years ago

I guess a rating system could work on top of current system, because it is hard to create content to just see it being taken by a copy and paste from other platforms or from this platform into another one.

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3 years ago

This is a great idea and a good addition to the system. But I'm afraid that this could also be deterrent for new users and might be viewed as some kind of elitist mentality movement. I don't know. I am just playing the devil's advocate here but just like in Noise.cash with the "user rating" functions. This could be subjected to utter misuse. Also, what would be the best set of criteria for the grading system? What's 100, what's 0?

But on the other hand, this can be taken as a motivation for some authors in here. For example, I am tagged with a grade of 50, I sure will strive to make that grade higher, at least 69 or so. : )

Anyhow, as always, great article and an amusing content. Cheers!

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3 years ago

These are some great points to implement.

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3 years ago

I like the ratings part. It will make the site pretty cool

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3 years ago

Sure! I'm greatly agree with you. Being a plagiarist must not be tolerated at all on this best platform. I love your thoughts, keep it up.

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3 years ago

That's a great idea to increase read.cash credentials. I hope the system administrators of this platform will hear you out.

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3 years ago

Oh, the grade feature, I think, will be great because it will boost more the author to write. But on the other hand, it takes extra effort to do it. But who knows these will be implemented here? Good work @Cryptomax :)

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

Sure dear!If this idea Also work on Read cash like Steem it would be more valuable.Last time I And Sir @Pantera also talked about that in his article comment box.I asked from him where this is no rating system for author on read cash?.But when you right Quality and pure content still your comments by others authors received in your bill section with flag spam?.If your point is implemented it will be dual purpose would benefit to author and read cash also.May this point would implemented into work.

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3 years ago

Very informative article thanks crypto max

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3 years ago