The thing to understand before reading any further is that there is a pre-determined number of moons which are distributed each round. That total number of moons is distributed no matter what changes with multipliers.

It is up to the members of the sub to decide how we allocate these across all types of content.

When you lower the multiplier for one type of content, it has the effect of giving a slightly higher distribution of moons to everything else.

Lowering a multiplier for one type of content doesn't mean "less moons for the sub". It means less moons for those who post one type of content, and slightly more moons for everyone who post in all other parts of the sub.

The total number of moons distributed in the round remains the same.

The Daily Thread is seeing many thousand comments a day.

You could have a comment asking about dog food and find it is strangely receiving several upvotes. A sign of vote manipulation at play. It’s easy for vote manipulation to get lost amongst thousands of comments in a thread.

People wishing each other goodnight and sweet dreams. Things that are completely off-topic. The Daily is seen as a place to "hang out and talk shit about anything you want" for the most part.

Many accounts are also commenting only in the Daily thread. These accounts very rarely, if ever, comment a single thing on any other post within the sub. Comments in the Daily are their sole source of karma, and their only engagement in the sub.

There are plenty of other places to "hang out" on reddit if you want to just have a chat about various topics. But this isn't a suggestion to remove the Daily thread for those who enjoy talking in there, but to not reward it with the same ratio of governance tokens as other parts of the sub.

Rewarding a general "hang out and talk shit" space at the same moon ratio as everything else isn't in the spirit of what should be rewarded governance tokens in a cryptocurrency sub.

Proposal:

Alter the karma multiplier for comments in the Daily thread to 0.2X (inclusive of the comment multiplier). (Mod clarification: In other words, Daily comments would not get the 2x multiplier and their karma multiplier is reduced 80%)

Pros:

• Slight increase in moon ratio for everything outside of the Daily thread, which means slightly more moons for the vast majority of people.
• Highlights the sub focus of rewarding moons for crypto discussions.
• Much less incentive for vote manipulation in the daily.

Cons:

• Some who use the Daily thread as their farming method will shift to the rest of the sub. However, they'll then at least be replying to crypto-related content and it is significantly more effort to post comments across several dozen posts, which may be enough to turn some off completely.
• It penalises the few who have high effort content in the Daily, however these are few and far between, as if it is high effort enough then they would almost always make a unique post for it.

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Proposal by u/Mr_Bob_Ferguson

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