Votebox - video competitions/subcommunities

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Description

Votebox is a very early stage & rough concept for how to do scalable competitions for video subcommunities. It can be built using a metaprotocol.

UX Flow

Creating a competition

• Only Curator WG Lead or an approved worker can create, manage or cancel a competition
• Content Curator Lead can add/remove worker permissions for creating and managing competitions
• Competition has
  • competition_metadata that sets title, description, banner image and other information
  • competition_parameters sets the rules, curator(s), oracle(s), timeframe, video length requirements, fees & reward for the competition

Submitting videos to competition

• Any user can add any video at any time
  • Video only counts if it falls within the competition_parameters
• Subsequent entries of the same video are ignored, only first submission counts
• Fee must be above entry_fee
• competition_curator must approve video

Curation

• Curator must approve entries and ensure they follow the rules or theme with a rationale before they are placed in the competition

Winner(s)

• Are determined automatically by competition parameters and the result is shown to users

Payout

• Payout is done by the selected oracle
• They must also declare the competition as valid or invalid
• App generates payment extrinsic with exact requirements of competition outcome
  • Upon payment the app checks the for payment and updates to paid - indicating to users that the payout has been done.

Competition Metadata

• competition_banner
  * URL/JPG: https://website.com/banner.jpg
• competition_title
  * text: "Weekly Cooking Competition"
• competition_theme
  * text: "Cajun cooking"
• competition_emoji
  * emoji: prompts emoji selector
• competition_tags
  * tags: cooking, art, creative, cajun
• competition_description
  * text: "Hi! This is our weekly cooking competition! This week we're looking into cajun cuisine. Please follow the rules and have fun!""`
• competition_conditions
  * text: "Only original content, submissions must be between 30s - 4 minutes long. No music."
• competition_reward
  * number of winning entries: top 3 videos
  * number: 22k $JOY
  * text_1: "featured on Joystream Twitter"
  * text_2: "featured on Gleev homepage for 1 day"

Competition Parameters

• competition_starttime
  * Start time is in the future, this is from when entries will be allowed. This will allow the competition to be prearranged and announced for maximum impact.
• competition_submission_period
  * This will be the duration that entries can be submitted, which will start once competition_min_entries has been exceeded. If set to 0 the competition will start immediately.
  * Time: 3 days
• competition_curator_period
  • This will be the time period in which the competition_curator can approve entries before competition_vote_period begins
• competition_vote_period
  • The length of time that voting will be allowed
• competition_curator
  • This is the member(s) who curate the content--approving videos into the competition. They will be given permissions by being listed here.
  • membership handles: @member_handle
• competition_oracle
  • This is the person(s) who handles payment
  • After competition end they can declare the outcome valid or invalid
  • membership handles @member_handle
• min_video_duration
  • Minimum duration of a video--entries outside this are ignored
  • number: 30 seconds
• max_video_duration
  • Maximum duration of a video--entries outside this are ignored
  • number: 4 minutes
• competition_min_entries
  • The minimum number of entries required for the competition to start
  • number: 3 entries
• compeition_max_entries
  • number: 52 entries
• competition_entry_fee
  • number: 500 $JOY
• competition_vote_fee
  • number: 3000 $JOY
• competition_fee_recipient
  • Fees paid for entries or voting are sent to this address--can be used as the prize pool
  • Default is blank
    • Membership faucet address?
    • Custom address
    • Description of who the address owner is
• competition_winner_count
  • number: 3 videos

Submission Metadata

• submission_url
  • URL of video: https://gleev.xyz/videos/1234
• submission_rationale
  • text: "insert text here"
• submission_source
  • determined if submitter is the original uploader of the video

Competition conclusion

• competition_oracle_result
  • Oracle issues judgement if the competition is valid or invalid
• competition_payout_tx
  • This is a link to the transaction where payout(s) occurred

Moderation

• Moderator can cancel competition with cancel_rationale
  • Fees can be refunded if desired

Voting

• Any member can vote
  • Can provide optional rationale
  • Can provide optional emoji
  • Fee must be above vote_fee
  • Can vote multiple times

Payout

• The competition_oracle will manage payouts. This is a social contract.

Social features

Individual competition leaderboard

• Shows a list of videos
  • Winners highlighted
  • Highest rated videos shown first
• Voter page that shows the members who voted the most/least

Video maker leaderboard

• Shows channels that have won the most times and what their rewards have been

References

https://monkeytalks.cc

Unanswered questions

• Metaprotocols and fees are used
• Who is moderator?
  • Content Curator WG?
• Who should voters be?
  • Members?
  • Channels?
• How should entries be restricted?
  • Category?
    • seems restrictive
  • Length?
    • yes
• Where do fees go?
  • They can go to the validator that authors the block
    • Tip must be set on TX submission
    • Query node does not track this
  • Can this be changed to send to any random account?
    • Member can via member.memberRemark
      • https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/explorer/query/3417003
    • Channel cannot do this
• Where does reward go?
  • Channel owner?
  • NFT owner?
  • Person who submits?
  • Split?
• Can membership deposit be used for system.remark?
  • This needs testing via signup flow
• What does system.remarkWithEvent do?
  • Asked builders WG

UI

• List of competitions on sidebar
  • Show whether upcoming, active, concluded
  • Entry count
  • Countdown to start/finish time
• Title/description/theme is shown of currently selected competition
• Basic stats
• Videos are shown on a carousel in random order which autoplays the primary video
• User can click next/previous video to browse videos
  • Or user can click to get a random video
• User can vote for a video