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RE: The Cake Analogy for Steemit in Relation to the Whale Experiment
Dude, what! HAHA! Your post already has 219 votes and $15.43 as I write this comment. The downvotes didn't even seem to affect you! :D
Woah! Yeah, man. It's true I'm on a 15 dollar potential payout. I mostly thank Project Curie 'cos their curation trail is where most of the upvotes and payouts of my post come from.
My assumption awhile ago might be wrong - about a computer program behind every early flag by the experimenters. I thought that the program has a function that partially matches votes coming from nonparticipating whales, as they come - but it seems doesn't. Now I'm starting to think that the tools being used as of the moment in conducting the experiment is not being used as it is intended to - but of course I'm just saying this out of my lack of knowledge about the entire experiment and the specifics about the tools that they are using.
But analyzing it carefully: If (and only if) everyone gets the same amount of downvote power on their posts, it will turn out to have no effect to the overall payout other than a delay. It's like telling everybody to pause first and then randomly taking away a certain portion out of the cake slices that everybody was holding, putting it back to the cake, and then telling everyone to resume their slicing.
If the tools are not being used as intended, maybe we can tell that they are still figuring out the right tools and one of the purposes of this downvoting is to make everyone aware or give attention to an upcoming experiment.
To be fair, the project curie trail has a lot of minnows and the most common whales I see at the top in every project-curie-approved posts, such as val's accounts are no long being seen as of today - means that they have also abstained from voting.
So the only ones left are likely bots. And, upon seeing the trending page right now, there are no huge gaps. But then again, the tools being used are seemingly not the right ones - or at least it doesn't have the right functions to accurately match the upvotes of nonparticipating whales such as whale bots or the whales who have no idea what's happening.
I've been abandoned by curie for some time now so I don't really have any say about what their approach to this is. I think that aside from counteracting whale votes, they have an algorithm that targets a certain amount of SP. As someone who has an SP of below 2K, I don't think I'm considered as anyone of note. I'm just a rather fat minnow. But still, I had been downvoted by more whales than those that did upvote. So, it tipped the scales negatively for me. Also, I noticed that I was downvoted before I was upvoted, so it looks like a pre-emptive strike in anticipation of whale votes that sadly didn't come.
As I read through the purpose of the experiments, I could see where their intention was coming from. Unfortunately, I was classified on the same side as those who have 100K SP or even 10K SP, which is a bit unfair. My votes don't even amount to a cent, and my earnings average less than $6 a post. They should've refined the algorithm to weed out those who are posting original work and those who are posting non-sensical posts that earn more than $20.
Right now, I'm just posting to prove that the majority of Steemians are vain instead of voting for posts which have a real-life impact. It's really a sad state of affairs.
curie only last till rep of 62. last time i checked
@surpassinggoogle Yeah, I was at 62 rep for a long time. That's what the period I was referring to. And, since they're the guys behind Steem Guild as well, I'm including that for the time I'm beyond curie qualification. I've been told that Steem Guild was going to catch me, but sadly that was never the case.