We just completed a major overhaul of the Everipedia UI (check it out) with the goal of creating the best UX in blockchain, and I think we succeeded. Now that a good foundation has been laid for user interaction, it’s time to address some major usability issues with the IQ protocol:

When you create an accepted edit, your IQ gets locked up for 21 days. Why should users be punished for producing good work? Winning edits should be refunded immediately to encourage good users to continue contributing to the site. Rejected edits will still be locked for 21–42 days. The protocol was designed with the idea that users would be submitting one large edit at a time, but that’s not how real usage patterns look. Users like to make multiple small edits to the same article so they can save their work regularly. This ends up costing them about 200 IQ instead of 50 and makes voting difficult because related edits need to be voted on individually. To solve this, edits should be put into draft mode for the first 30 minutes after submission. During the draft period, a user can update their proposal with new edits. Voting will only begin 30 minutes after the last update. Easy Referendums: There should be a simple action for marking a proposal as a referendum.

There are other upgrades we have considered as well, such as burning collateral for rejected edits, refunding winning voters sooner, and fixed 30-day slash lockups, but those are more controversial and should be put to a community referendum.

The three above changes are low-hanging fruit I believe we can implement immediately. We invite the community to offer their feedback on our Telegram channel.