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RE: Next time you want to do an experiment...
Bypassing other comments, for the moment... I agree that there's a lack of "scientific methodology" involved here, which one would typically hope for in an experiment.
For me, it raises a question mark on the whole "decentralized" vs. "community building" aspect of Steemit. It's a great concept, but let's not completely throw out the baby (centralized organization) with the bathwater. I've only been here six weeks, but a lot of stuff around here seem like unorganized chaos, with features and tweaks coming in chaotic fits and starts. Methink there might (at least) be some kind of "steering committee" behind moving the community forward.
And if there actually IS one, they are doing a piss-poor job of communicating with the community.
Not sure where the steering committee would be. I'd expect it would be steemit inc employees, and the top 19 witnesses. This is why voting on witnesses you believe are representing how you want steem/it approached is important.
If anyone has input it is those people.
Then there are of course the whales who through their sheer accumulated steem power and the n^2 curve can completely dominate steemit unless other whales WANT to challenge them.
One thing about this down vote I've been trying to get to others I explained in a reply on another post... here are my examples I gave @merej99 ...
This is exactly what happened to me. I managed to pick up 6 downvotes. According to steemd.com, the downvotes were as follows:
abit -18,019,851,490,916
smooth -1,010,494,623,757
engagement -422,414,143,516
berniesanders -7,379,281,241
thecyclist -245,377,738,122
nextgencrypto -102,619,770,165
but my top six upvotes were
hendrikdegrote 8,219,277,610,560
jaewoocho 5,372,742,249,385
lafonaminer 2,650,557,916,332
wang 2,310,680,937,121
delegate.lafona 1,316,562,433,153
fyrstikken 105,068,108,918
They weren't just cancelling the whale votes - they were cancelling all the dolphin and minnow votes as well.
Which makes a complete mockery of "lets see what happens when just dolphins and minnows vote"
Also - this thing affects curation rewards for the little person. Even if you were a minnow, it was worth voting manually to see if you could spot a great post at 30 minutes, that would later be picked up by a whale. There is no point bothering now, because each post only seems to earn a dollar, so if you are a really small account, you won't get a curation reward for it anyway. They've broken the entire system.
I expect this experiment to STOP soon. I'm actually trying to have some productive talks with people to see if I can help someway. I am not a powerful steem power person, but I care about this project and the community. Not sure if I can help, but if I can figure out a way that I can, I will.
Abit insists on continuing - and stated that it would be "good" if people start leaving - and smooth apparently agrees with continuing as well. I think other whales should simply stop complying with the requests. This is both a mockery and a failure. When something like this is haphazardly sprung on the community with no defined goals or parameters, and then a large portion of the community says, "this isn't good," then it's time to stop, evaluate where you went wrong, and work to improve the "testing" for the next attempt, if there is one. You don't double down on the stupidity and extend the time frame.