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RE: Proposal: Change Up and Downvotes to bids
You appear not to math well. There is no way to ascertain the result you seek.
You appear not to math well. There is no way to ascertain the result you seek.
First of all, I think you don't know the fine rules of discourse too well, because that's not how you discuss.
Second, I am quite decent with math and code.
If someone can with a specific quantity of VP "bid" on the value of a post to guarantee it. And in the end, let's say the post is highly over or undervalued all this VP will be used, no adjustments needed. If the value of the post is exactly what he voted for, at the end of the 7th day, the chain calculates this, and refunds him the unused VP. End of story.
Provide examples. The calculations requisite to determining the VP expended on a post are two-fold in the situation you describe. The first aspect is the VP expended by the voter, which varies depending on the votes expended. The second is the VP of all voters on the post, which determines it's payout. Given that all voters' VP is variable because all voters are voting on more than that one post, this requires that all of their VP be accounted for when payout is calculated, and then the weight of the votes cast that are based on that payout to be adjusted to approach that payout as possible.
This is two variables that depend on each other to be calculated, which isn't possible to do.
Suppose you were target shooting on a world with randomly varying gravity. Where you aim the bullet is determined by you, a variable that cannot be precisely predicted, just as the gravity pulling on the bullet cannot be predicted.
There is no calculation that could be made to accurately aim in that condition, because the two variables depend each the other on the calculation of each the other. It is an insoluble math problem.
Show me the calculation of VP and payout that could deliver payouts. No such mathematical solution exists. Pointing this out isn't rude. Claiming reality is rude is unreasonable.
Let's simplify this the maximum:
a) You select the % VP you vote with.
b) You select which value you envision the post to end up at.
Your vote can then influence the value of the post up to the max % VP you applied to it.
The closer the end value of the post is to your value, the less % of your vote is necessary, but that is not important.
Now, a user might be disappointed that he did a 100% VP vote but 0% had to be used because the post ended up exactly at the value at which the user guessed, now you could gamify this and reward the users the most curation not only who early voted, but how well someone guessed.
We don't have to use 100% of the VP of all the combined voters and we don't have to reward it back neither.
You simply sidestep the mathematical incalculability of computing the VP here. Please demonstrate how VP can be calculated to determine whether, or how much, VP is delivered to payout the post. The problem is that both variables are dependent on each other, and neither can be calculated independent of the other.
Got are you making it difficult, the user sets the VP he wants to deliver to the post, and that's what is going to be used of his VP. If less is needed to guarantee the value in the end, it doesn't matter.
Math. It's difficult. I'm entirely reasonable, if obdurate. You are not doing the math. I've asked three times, and you simply ignore it. Therefore I must assume you cannot undertake it.
And that's my point: no one can do that math.