RE: Distribution of SteemPower and Reward Pool share across Bid-Bots, dApps and Communities
One of the biggest questions on people's lips is 'how much do the bid-bots use of the reward pool', and this is a nice approach at answering this question :)
An also very positive result at least in my opinion is that the total value of self-votes decreased by around 2% in the last three months.
I appreciate the positive conclusions, but I think we are both aware of the 'workaround' that some active whales/orca's are using to inadvertently lower this %. And so I'll be taking this statement with a pinch of salt, and guess we'll never really know true 'self-vote' %'s.
Perhaps if you grouped accounts that blow 75% VP on less than 6/7 accounts, then that would indicate a lack of community voting - I think one of your recent analysis's was in this direction.
As always, excellent work!
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Thanks @abh12345! On the selfvotes: Yes, I was looking into this some time ago, and we saw 6% direct self votes and 12.8% of all voters giving 80% or more of their rshares to 6 or less authors back then. So yeah, there are plenty of ways to obfuscate self-votes. I should probably revive this approach to check if that number decreased as well. You are of course right, the direct self-vote rate alone is not necessarily conclusive. But hey, it looks promising :)
What is the active work around you are referring to?
having/controlling one or more other accounts and use those to vote for yourself or in circles
Lol, that easy. I could have figured this out myself.
The first one I think of is Bernie.