RE: What Are Your Thoughts On Curie? (A Community Survey)
I wonder why we have the same authors at the trending page everyday. Possibility is that they only like these authors and they dont like the rest of us minnows. Could it be?
I cant blame the whales if they use bots to vote because they also have a life out there and they could not just spend time watching every posts in the platform. Besides these whales are rich people and would we think rich people would let themselves stay for long in front of their stations and roam around the platform, no there not, 1 to 2 hrs is enough for them not unless they are working for the platform, but even so, thats why they use bots to handle the voting for them.
So the drive of every minnows in the community is to hope that we will be included in their bots vote list. That's all there is to it, because without them we cant expect to receive high value votes.
It's just how the curation rewards are designed. If a minnow votes on a post that no one else will vote, they will get no reward. If a minnow votes on a post that many larger accounts are voting on, they stand to gain something. So, if a whale chooses to reward an author consistently - which is absolutely fair - minnows, dolphins and even smaller whales see the pattern and front run the whales to cash in on curation rewards. Over time, these accounts get infested by hundreds of bots, and are basically a guarantee for the Trending post.
I don't blame anyone here - it's just that the curation rewards system does not achieve it's goal of "curation", rather disincentives it. Why vote on a good lost post (actual curation) when you can save your voting power and cash in on a post that you know is going to trend?
exactly!