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RE: Problem with the experiment... @smooth, I don't believe this was your intention
It sure looks like intent to me. I've seen several posts by people who almost never get whale votes flagged. If they wanted to counteract bad whale behavior, they would flag themselves.
Anyone with over 1,000,000 Steem Power I believe is considered a whale. Their experiment is to see how the reward pool would distribute if people with lesser steem power get to vote. It should be closer to what it would be like if there was not a concentration of power.
The problem is they didn't coordinate it and get all whales to agree, so when they see a whale up vote something they down vote it.
That means the experiment is kind of working on rigged data, but that's kind of expected if they didn't plan and get all whales to agree to participate for X amount of time.
The big issue for me is people like @jang caught in the crossfires and his posts hidden like they were spam, abuse, or plagiarism and his reputation likely dinged.
That shouldn't be an acceptable outcome. I consider the concept of Collateral Damage to be an evil one. So if this is what they feel they need to do then they need to have a way to follow behind and repair reputations, and unhide posts that didn't deserve to be hidden.
Hidden posts will skew the results as some people will not even look at them. They'll think it was abusive, NSFW, or something else.
This kind of irresponsibility is what causes the problems in the first place. Compounding it doesn't help.
They also didn't coordinate this with the minnows who have stopped voting, because they know their vote doesn't mean anything. Yours is the most informative post I've seen on this. If I knew my vote mattered, then I'd go vote, but this experiment was poorly thought out, and poorly executed.
Their experiment changes normal vote patterns anyway. I am hesitant to waste my voting power now on a post I want to succeed, because it might just get blasted into oblivion by their Commie-bots. Plus, even people that paid to promote their posts are being downvoted.
Also abit (not sure about others) is downvoting consolidated minnow voting, treating a group of minnows like a single whale.
They should upvote him back to old rep after this is all over. It's a well needed expirement. If it was done last September when I suggested it, it would have saved the platform a lot of heartache