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RE: The Judging Panel and how they keep the game fun for everyone
Maybe to get to a "better place," it would be good if betting games were only valid for people with low reputation to vote or win on. Thus the payout would be smaller too, more like a faucet to help get one's first bit of SP.
That's exactly what these posts do in practice. For larger SP holders, the vote itself is worth more than what you stand to win (meaning, what you could make using the same vote somewhere else instead). The whales voting on these posts are certainly not doing it for the 0.160 SBD reward (amount I got from one recent Steemsports game).
Before someone starts making claims about curation rewards, there almost no curation rewards on Steemsports posts either. Their most recent free-bet post has
author_curate_reward 86.21%which means 86% of what would have otherwise been curation rewards on that post were redirected to the poster instead (due to early voting).The so-called vote buying has little to no effect on the larger SP votes that actually determine where most of the rewards go. It's all really just a sports blog with a fun game that works a lot like a faucet.
Allowing only users with below a limited number of SP wouldn't be a bad idea in my eye. Maybe that's a good compromise. The only issue is with sock puppet accounts. There is a badger account that I think is a whale account made up of at least a thousand minnows (not sure). That would mean it could still be gamed.
Hmm, that's true.