It's especially annoying seeing this:
While seeing the SPL community do their best to get the project more funding thinking of ways to add ad revenue and other things I've been reading lately in some posts of the stakeholders without knowing that another project here is taking half of their curation rewards weekly (1000-1500 HP) while SPL is struggling and even receiving funding by the DHF.
me telling aggroed about the issue more than a year ago
Same mate, it's quite ridiculous to keep it going this way, doesn't matter if it's contests or whatever, there's very little reason/excuse to vote posts that late. There are times we do vote them as well but those posts are usually overlooked and in our scope for curation so we don't lose out anything and in the odd cases reward random curators who've put in time and their stake to go out of their way to vote posts close to 0 to a couple bucks. This however is a pattern that people could've easily abused for years and they've let it go on. And now they're facing the same loss on 2 different accounts and putting their authors in the crosshairs of downvotes just so the leeches will lose a bit APR.
I did some math the other week, at their current APR they are leaving ~78K/yr on the table, and bdvoter is scooping it up.
But it's not black and white, the 24 hour window is difficult without being dedicated 8-16 hours/day watching the chain. This has a direct cost as well.
Not sure how their curation is set up exactly, all I know is they leave gifs with this account when they upvote the posts (I think): https://peakd.com/@steemmonsters/comments
but since many of them land late it leaves room for others to predict which posts are going to get upvoted. Who knows if those predictions are only a guessing game but metrics show that they're pretty good at it to the point of taking 50% of the curation rewards of one of our biggest projects in the ecosystem.
Solution is to simply have more curators actively curate content as it's coming out rather than try and play catch-up later. Voting on posts purposely late also doesn't make a lot of sense since they'd want good SPL posts to get hot/trending attention to bring new users to the game.
The votes seem to land as the comment is placed so I'm guessing the curators have posting authority to cast the votes. If other curation projects can easily get to most posts before the 24h window I don't see why they can't.
Same fate here too. So this is costing SPL even more returns I'm sure they could use for various things...
wouldn't the easy way of fixing this is to make no curve and just that voting on it within 7 days nets the same no matter what? Nothing to game in that case right? I could be totally wrong though I don't understand the whole curve very well.
This would open up other issues and make it more difficult to fight abuse. Also, steemmonsters can easily fix it on their own in 2 minutes.