I thought I would share my thoughts on what the next "rewards experiment" should look like. Or maybe, it could be the "end-game", who knows. Honestly, I forget what all the past experiments even were, so maybe this has already been tried?
It feels like with the randomness introduced, stackers have been held more accountable to produce quality content and/or zap good content, not knowing which behavior will be rewarded. Of course, this is just a feeling and not supported by any hard evidence. But I think that was the original intent, so success!
However, I think it can be discouraging to some when maybe you zap a really good post early on a day where zapping ends up not being rewarded, or maybe you make a really great comment on a day where early zapping is rewarded, instead.
My idea is as follows: Both behaviors (zapping top content, creating top content) get rewarded a guaranteed 10% of the rewards pool daily. The remaining 80% gets randomly distributed between the two behaviors on a daily basis. The goal is that this would keep stackers accountable to work towards each goal, knowing that they will get some reward, and maybe a lot more, depending on the random draw.
In any case, I'd love to hear your opinion of both this proposal, or maybe some others! Thank you for reading.