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RE: Downvote Pool Deep Dive

in #steem6 years ago (edited)

The Whale Experiment was directly in response to the Crowd who demanded vociferously one singular fundamental change in the much anticipated hardfork at that point. I know exactly what it was, and it wasn't just two whales, FTG and Abit and Smooth and I'm missing a couple more all joined, along with all the Whales like Ned and Dan that Stopped voting, and my point was that wisdom of the crowd isn't inherently wrong or mistaken, especially in that instance. The platform was buzzing with activity like it hasn't buzzed since or before, there has still not been any more successful experiment that drove engagement and brought more traffic to the platform. Don't try to marginalize it to the efforts of the two people that began it and sacrificed most to maintain it, it was the response the community had that also played a large role in it, and like I said the participants included not only the people who Downvoted but the people who Refrained from voting. Yeah, Flagging is enormously beneficial to the health and integrity of the platform and I'll keep reminding you forgetful lot that thinks the very very worst of everyone else. Give everyone else more tools to police themselves and they will surely turn to raging trolls. Nonsense.

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The whale experiment you refer to achieved exactly the purpose of the Huey Long algorithm I have proposed: limiting the profiteering potential of perverting curation via financial manipulation.

The only differences were that the algorithm was different, and it wasn't cast in code, but done by altruists. It didn't last because it wasn't cast in code as the Huey Long algorithm would be. No downvotes would be necessary from the Huey Long algorithm to achieve the same purpose.