RE: Project Smackdown - 15th July stats
This kinda a waste of time, there are 200 whales with higher SP than the SMDK(100,000+). Those whales get 10x 100% votes per day, SMDK needs like $20M in SP to even come close to being able to smack down that amount of whales. Even if you are successful in "stopping" a whale from up voting himself directly you cannot prevent him from up voting himself by proxy.
The whales you have smacked down still have cash on their posts because you don't have enough to counter. Just one or two whales completely drain the bot of all of its voting power and they can vote like this all the time.
I don't think that a down voting bot is the solution to this problem, the curation rewards need to be changed so that there is less incentives for whales to post like this. For a whale that produces a $10 up vote he would need the post to be $200+ to get even close to his sp back, there simply are not enough posts like that for the whales to corner. This is the problem.
I agree that we need a HF. We're making a point and showing stats to draw attention to that fact. Obviously we can only have the effect which matches the stake delegated to us.
It's not a long term solution but we are registering our disagreement the only way we can. I think that's worth it, small as it is. We are just one group in the heaving sea 😉
The problem is your down votes ruin the reputation score of high dollar investors. You don't need to 100% down vote to show the stats and your disagreement, nor do you need to down vote to an extent that a reputation score would be harmed.
IMO you would be better off doing the cheetah way of commenting on the post and giving a small down vote to show your displeasure without doing real harm. Your bots comments could bring light to the users abuse as being in the top XXX of vote abuse spam and you could gradually increase your flags to 100% instead of what you are doing now.
@smackdown.kitty only down votes with equal or less effect as the original self up vote, you can confirm this on a blockchain explorer like steemd.com for example. The current code is making the down vote always slightly less. The reputation score is an effect of the current system and we stand by it.
We are not trying to be gentle with users who take the most rewards per day with large up votes on comments, we're trying to cancel the effect of their vote as a strong disagreement.
Sincere criticism and constructive ideas are always appreciated. We stand by our way of doing this so far.