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RE: [Discussion Post] Abuse fighting and a new 'Whale Experiment'?
This is an interesting thing to consider, although I think seeing powerful accounts downvoting every post I make would be unpleasant even if it was arguably for a good reason.
A lighter-weight experiment might just be to show the payouts from a variety of different algorithms, e.g. an app that takes a permlink as input and calculates the rewards, or maybe a comment bot that posts to each post (although that could be spammy). You wouldn't get second order effects from people changing behavior to adapt to different algorithms, but it could at least be informative.
You might be right about that. It was quite definitely a sore point the first time around. Communicating it in advance might minimize that frustration, but then again, it might not.
I actually wrote a simulator that would report the actual rewards and simulated rewards under a 2nd price auction algorithm back when the rewards curve was still linear. I never collected data on large numbers of posts, though. Just a few hand-picked examples. You're also right that this technique would not tell us about the way that people will adjust their behavior.
I like the idea of looking at more than just two candidate algorithms at the same time. That's not something I had considered before.