Viewing a response to: @timcliff/the-whale-voting-experiment-explained-including-downvotes-from-abit
I just think its ridiculous that users with excessively large accounts worth upwards to $500K , like abit, take it upon themselves with one downvote to reduce a half a days worth of writing by the casual contributor to a few pennies. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of cultivating new users and contributors? Why don't they stick to downvoting other whales, if that is who their target is?
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| author | phillycheeze |
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It is not about taking rewards away from people. One of the biggest issues that has been affecting user retention has been the fact that regular users have no say over the payout of rewards, and the only way to earn is to be one of the lucky ones that a whale pays attention to. The goal of what @abit is doing is to counter the influence from the whales that are still voting, so that the voting from the 'regular' users of the platform actually matter.
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| author | timcliff |
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