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RE: @wang appears to be front-running my votes.
No, it's not just you. I don't know why it happens though. How is your bot casting votes?
If you're a curator on Steemit, you gotta live with The Wang Menace. Others have tried to shake off wang without any success.
I think @wang isn't the only one who successfully front-runned some votes. Also @wang is a contributor on the platform. I'm pretty sure he's reading a lot of posts cause he's been voting on a lot of comment which is in my opinion a sign he's reading posts. Also I think he's not necessarily always voting 100% for the curation reward. I thinks some of his votes fulfill other purposes than curation rewards which I think is very interesting.
@wang is pushing the limits of Steem and is showing some opportunities for skilled dev. I'm pretty sure he's achieving this through "vote broadcast interception" as you mentioned.
All those comment votes are bot votes as well. Here, I'll upvote your post - see wang follow instantly. Note that the comment votes are usually 1% from wang. Maybe wang is reading, I don't know, but one thing's for sure, a vast majority if not all votes are bot votes.
Every vote wang makes is to maximize curation rewards. Well played to them, of course. Just shows that our reward system is broken.
I didn't knew the comment votes were bot's votes. I'm intrigued as to why he's making those votes. I don't see how these votes could help is curation.
I don't think the reward system is broken. It could most probably be bettered but that's true of everything.
Edit: when I first saw wang's vote I hadn't seen your comment and I was thinking: "this prove my point wang is reading posts."
My guess is it's a quirk of wang's fast voting bot. To keep the speed high, voting on comments has to be a "necessarily evil". However, wang smartly minimizes the impact by voting only 1% for comment votes, so it's only a negligible impact on profitability.
Hey, just thought I'd mention this: as @ats-david pointed out above, @wang is not actually front-running. It's just a display bug on steemd.com. If you look at the block itself, the votes are actually recorded in the right order.
In any case, @wang's votes do go in extremely fast, almost always being included in the same block as mine. I have several other vote-followers (@masteryoda and @roelandp are two examples), and their votes are cast seconds to minutes after mine.
Thank you very much for that valuable information. I didn't even thought to look it up.
Per the comment above by @ats-david, it turns out that @wang is not actually front-running. It's just a display bug on steemd.com. If you look at the block itself, the votes are actually recorded in the right order.
The menace for me is that I have several other accounts that my bot votes for, and I need to make sure that their votes go in before @wang's or he will eat up all my clients' curation rewards.
You can verify this on Steemstats.com - click on the Vote Inspector.