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>If the experiment succeeds... It's hard to know what "success" is when we don't even know the purpose of the "experiment" or most of the criteria/parameters involved. With everything being arbitrary - as far as I can tell - and with this likely not being sustainable over any meaningful period of time, how can "success" actually be determined? And is it "successful" if one of the major results is to piss off a bunch of users or to confuse the shit out of them, like what's *actually happening?*
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| author | ats-david |
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Well, most likely you will see the value of your upvotes go up by quite a bit within the next 24 hours. Along with that, your curation rewards. So if nothing else, I'd say just enjoy it.
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| author | timcliff |
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So far, my curation rewards are down because all of the posts I upvoted today were flagged. And I really don't care if my vote goes from $0.03 to $0.04. The trade-off is not worth it.
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| author | ats-david |
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If whales want to hold their votes then that is fine, but negating other whales votes is a misguided attempt at manipulation. People don't like to be manipulated and this also goes for the content creators who had no say in taking part in this, but are just being used. Its a failed experiment that was poorly planned and even more poorly executed. The sooner it stops the better.
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| author | bigsambucca |
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If the experiment is 'successful' - your upvotes will go up by quite a bit more than that. If you are doing a 'good job' of curating (finding posts that are quality content, which end up getting a lot of upvotes from users after you find it) then you will probably earn more in curation rewards under the new system. Not saying this is the case, but if your only curation strategy was to front-run whales, then in that case you would not do good.
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| author | timcliff |
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