The logical thing to assume is that people rarely change if not forced to do so. Since you cant force anyone to do anything here, let alone whales, nor should you, their behaviour will remain the same.

A discounted downvoting pool goes both ways. This again empowers whales most of all. Who in their right mind would risk getting their blog destroyed. Not only are you increasing their income, not only are you increasing their influence with the 1.3 superlinear but you are essentially placing the active whales (thats the most important destinction) in a position of power far beyond their current position if you stack all those changes, where their decisions who to upvote and who to downvote, who deserves what and when, affect the platform so much more.

At least now you can buy votes from them and earn something. Not depend completely on the whims of whales. Im all for fixing the trending page but that can be changed by fixing the UI and adding filters. Such a drastic change Kevin is proposing wouldnt do any good imo.

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