A Summary of @randowhale: Statistics for Dummies

So, @randowhale is the big new thing - you pay two bucks, he upvotes your post with a random voting power from 2% to 50% (currently his account has a total of 630,685 Steem, delegated from several whales) and you get rich, right?

Sounds like a plan. So I decided to start spending my cash for upvotes, but for the sake of accountability, I've written down all transactions and calculated my profit. Here we go - terminology first:

• Upvoted amount (SBD): The cash I've received from @randowhale
• Percent upvote: What percentage of voting power @randowhale used to upvote my post
• Voting power: What was the total voting power of @randowhale, at the time of him upvoting my post
• 75% for Author: My income from @randowhale's upvote (the other 25% are for anyone else, including @randowhale, who have upvoted my post)
• Net profit (-2 SBD): Total profit on this post, that I will receive in a week. I subtract @randowhale's fee for upvoting my content, from my 75% income. The reason is that anyone who has upvoted, including @randowhale, do not pay their 25% of the 2 SBD fee, so this is my expense alone.

Upvote amount (SBD)	Percent Upvote	Voting Power	75% for Author	Net profit (-2 SBD)
7.05	43%	47.7%	5.29	3.29
5.63	35%	47.7%	4.22	2.22
7.61	41%	47.7%	5.70	3.70
0.54	2%	47.66%	0.43	-1.57
8.89	44%	43.23%	6.67	4.67
6.45	26%	43.75%	4.84	2.84
7.58	50%	43.75%	5.68	3.68
1.03	7%	39.44%	0.77	-1.23
0.49	3%	39.47%	0.37	-1.63
1.72	13%	40.01%	1.29	-0.71
1.03	9%	40.01%	0.77	-1.23
3.8	27%	40.4%	2.85	0.85
1.31	10%	39.84%	0.98	-1.02
2.89	31%	39.84%	2.17	0.17
4.81	37%	36.31%	3.60	1.60
2.68	24%	36.36%	2.01	0.01
1.7	15%	36.36%	1.28	0.72
1.54	15%	36.58%	1.15	-0.85
4.51	46%	33.21%	3.38	1.38
0.92	7%	33.57%	0.69	-1.31
2.67	29%	33.46%	2	0
0.43	5%	33.61%	0.32	-1.68
0.59	8%	35.13%	0.44	-1.56
3.69	38%	35.16%	2.77	0.77
4.06	36%	35.46%	3.04	1.04

Per post statistics:

Average upvoted amount in SBD: 3.35
Average upvote percent: 24.04%
Average Steem Power: 39.43%
Average author income: 2.51
Average NET author profit: 0.51

TOTAL AUTHOR PROFIT (Sample of 25 posts): 14.15 SBD

Conclusion: After reading my detailed statistics, some of you have already made up your mind. At 0.51 SBD average income per post, I would say that the long procedure of carefully filling up the Send form in your wallet and copy pasting the active key is not really worth it. Especially since the return of investment kept diminishing with the upvoting power of @randowhale, who became more and more popular with folks, whose strong suit isn't really mathematics.

At this point in time, I see only one reason to use @randowhale's services - to throw in a couple of cents on your newly posted content, which would attract the attention of the mindless curators, who upvote (without opening) anything in the "new" tab, which has gathered some cash in the first seconds after it's published. I've actually tried this tactic and it sometimes works - although at a loss, as you might pay @randowhale more than you actually make on this post.

I hope that was useful - I'll be grateful for an upvote and a resteem, if you found this article useful! And do check out @randowhale's upvote on this article! ;)

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