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

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· @timcliff ·
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 ·
>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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@timcliff ·
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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@ats-david ·
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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