Last week I posted an analysis of user engagement on Steemit. 
* [Dolphins and Minnows get more influence](https://steemit.com/steemit/@eroche/dolphins-and-minnows-get-more-influence)

An experiment has been running on Steemit to see what happens if Dolphins and Minnows get more influence. I have really noticed the effect of it when upvoting posts and comments. **My vote is finally worth something!!!** 

### But how is this experiment playing out?

Thanks to @furion and https://steemdata.com/ we have access to lots of data from the Steem Blockchain in a digestible format. 

Lets look at some of the data....

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## Distribution of Payouts Per Day
This first graph shows the breakdown of the post payouts coloured by author reputation. The noticable feature of this graph is the bottom right corner. We are seeing much more colour which means that more posts are getting some reward and fewer getting nothing or just pence. i.e. a more even distribution of rewards with more going to lower Rep authors.


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This second graph looks at median payouts. If there are more authors engaging with the platform then the rewards will be distributed among more people so you would expect to see the median or average payout falling. 
The following graph shows that has been trending down which means a more even distribution of rewards.

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## Votes, Comments and Posts
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The number of comments and posts continue to be strong. There is a clear upward trend since the experiment began.

## Bot Votes
I have labelled any vote that is less than 5% Steem Power as a bot vote. These seemed to die for a few days but they have picked up again. Were some of the bots down?

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## Posting Patterns of Different Groups
I have grouped authors of different reputation levels together and plotted the number of authors who post per day in each group. 
There is a clear up trend in number of posts for the range of Reputation 35 to 56. That is there is more people posting from these groups since the experiment began.

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## Conclusions
* People with lower reputations (the new users) are writing more
* People are commenting more
* Payouts are more evenly distributed

**This all adds up to more engagement on the platform.**



## What do you think of the experiment??

**Further Reading about the experiment**
@abit posted about the experiment in the following post if you want to read more about it.
* https://steemit.com/test/@abit/whales-no-up-voting-test

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