people post in the splinterlands community, for some reason the @steemmonsters curators don't vote the post within 24h, this opens up an abuse factor where big accounts swoop in and vote the posts they think SPL will vote later. Spl then votes those posts 2-3 days late which results in that one big account that voted within 24h getting 30-50% of splinterland's curation rewards.
Changing how spl votes (to vote before posts get past the age of 24h) would eliminate this front-running, or if that other big account wasn't doing it for the rewards but to support spl posts they could just trail the spl votes to vote at the same time, then they'd share the rewards equally.
Since this has been going on in forever, a big account receiving close to 2x higher curation returns than anyone else at the cost of splinterlands losing hundreds of thousands of hive in curation rewards, people like marky are now stepping in to downvote those posts slightly so both the big account taking advantage of this, splinterlands and the author lose some APR.
I see... Well I will raise this issue with a few people though I see Azircon is already aware and I see that Splinterlands curators are much better voting in the first 24 hours on their latest post.
I think what is going on:
This rule creates a problem where I think curators are waiting on purpose to vote for the post because:
Example: In week 1 I make a post on Friday and Saturday (Deadline for this week is the following Monday and Tuesday) This means that I need to wait until next Friday and Saturday for curators to be able to give me another vote based on the 2 upvotes a week rule. If I post on Wednesday and Thursday in Week 2 the curators have a choice:
The solution could be to spell this out in Splinterlands rules very specifically that it is not just based on the week but also on 7 days between posts.
I could be off, but that is my understanding of what is going on.
yeah we have similar restrictions in certain places in ocd and doing things based on active posts rather than days of the week generally works better.