I really like your transparency and insight. I have been playing with my habits recently. See my prior post linked below.
You mention you do not flag for reward disagreement with the explanation of the lottery. I would love if you could elaborate on your position here as this is the single area with flagging that I struggle with. Would love your veteran opinion.
HF 19 should eliminate the need for this type of flagging anyways.
Do you really feel this will have such an effect, whale bot votes are still whale bot votes. Curation rewards incentivize against unvoating or flagging after the initial vote occurred.
Sure I'll try to explain. Ok right now, voting occurs with an N^2 (N squared) power curve. This means that if a post receives..lets say 1000 SP worth of votes, that this will take 1000^2 or 1000000 portion of the reward pool. It doesn't matter if this 1000 SP came from one voter or ten voters put together.
This is why whales feel so powerful in voting, their vote is worth exponentially more than a minnows. If multiple whales pile on and vote for the same post, this posts worth will shoot up into the strastosphere and consume a large chunk of the reward pool, taking money away from all other posts.
Because of this, some whales feel the need to counter-act this by downvoting those posts. And mathematically speaking, it is more efficient to downvote that one "over-rewarded" post then it would be to try to upvote 10 other posts.
But when HF 19 happens, the power curve will change from N^2 to just plain N. When this happens, then those whales will no longer need to counteract that powerful N^2 that over-rewards posts.
I hope that makes sense; it's not the easiest thing to explain.
This isn't the same as a whale-bot issue, that could still exist.
Thanks neo, I was still naïve about some of the details of HF19 - the linearity will be interesting, looking forward.
I have pulled back on some of my reward disagreement flagging after this, I think I agree with your lotto point for the most part. I may still flag for posts in certain rewards cases, still thinking there.