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RE: A first thought about improving curation
I like this as a potential fix to the early voting bots...but there is potentially an issue. It would mean that big voters get a bigger reward for voting on huge payouts from authors that regularly get huge payouts, even if they aren't first. So, in essence, they might get a higher reward for just voting on crap from the people that are regularly in trending, over trying to go out there and find good posts, because their vote is so huge, and finding good posts is such a gamble.
They'd never get a bigger reward than par that way. Maybe they'd get less than par if they were voting on other things but always late, I guess. But big voters get a big boost from the n2 system as well as early voters, and they might still be better off voting late on an n2 post than on a linear post, I'd have to look at the math.
I hope you're right.
Yeah, that was the essence of what I was thinking before I started writing my post. In your system, they probably won't earn as much as previously from just auto-voting, but it might be possible to vote late, and earn more just due to the size of their vote, versus possible being the largest vote on a post, period. It might be a good idea to just do as much as you can to encourage voting though.