RE: The Whale Voting Experiment Explained (including downvotes from @abit) by bigsambucca

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steem · @bigsambucca · Mar 13 '17

Sounds an awful like Mafia coercion to me. With whales trying to manipulate other whales to their way. There is nothing good about this. As for dolphins show are mainly stuck in the middle creating content, they will be punished for having good content rewarded by a high value account. It creates ill-will from those who find themselves an unwilling participant in this flawed experiment and the sooner it stops the better.

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@timcliff · Mar 13 '17

If the experiment succeeds, then the dolphins are the ones that benefit. They will see their influence boosted so that the posts they upvote actually gain significant rewards.

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@ats-david · Mar 13 '17

>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?*

👍 bigsambucca

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@timcliff · Mar 13 '17

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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