So, looking at the current top participants, it looks like some upvote bots are in there. Currently they probably will influence someone's rank negatively because people normally buy small percentage upvotes. Since I don't like them I don't really mind that, but I don't know your opinion on them. Another option would be to not count votes by them. This would require some work to keep an updated list though.
Personally I would suggest you only increase a voter's weight after they have posted once with the #q-filter tag. This would factor out those sparse whale votes and downplay votes by people who don't understand the system.
Just me thinking 😉
Yeah, I saw the same thing and double checked the code to make sure everything was working properly and it appears to be behaving correctly with a little more volatility than expected. The only issue with the adjusting voter weights after they post with the q-filter tag is that it requires them to post once (which is the smaller issue) and it would mean that their weight would continually decrease as the total weight in the system is fixed to encourage continual use to maintain weight.
But maybe it will discourage bot-use which could be seen as a good thing. Maybe it will discourage user growth which may be seen bad thing. I'm not sure. But only one post has been processed and it happened to be one with bot votes attached to it. I think making a change now would be a little premature. Let's see what happens over the next few days and see if things start to balance out or if these types of bots take over.
I don't have any problems with a bot winning the vote lottery. It means that the bot either got lucky, there were very few votes on the post, or the human players haven't figured out how to tailor their votes to increase vote lottery odds. Probably a combination of the three.
And highlighting what I've said, the last qFilter Vote Lottery Prize went to the upvote bot @lovejuice.