RE: Utopian-io Vote Analysis: December 2018
Very interesting read once again! Pretty funny seeing people like Tensor stick out so much (only read bar to be seen) and so many people without any contributions in the top 10 of December.
Although seeing this sort of reinforces my feeling that rewards for reviews and iamutopian contributions are / were too high, and the voting power would be better spent on upvoting contributions. I say this because of the fact that over the last month or so, loads of contributions haven't been upvoted despite receiving a good score (e.g. I saw a contribution in the development category with a score of 79 not get upvoted).
With the introduction of the age-weighted sorting and the decrease of rewards for the iamutopian category, this has been a bit better, but hopefully it improves even more in the future. Or maybe it will all get solved by STEEM increasing in price (we can hope) ;)
Glad to have you back!
Thanks Amos!
I think the issues with high-scoring development contributions not being rewarded arose because:
(a) Whilst the maximum vote percentages for individual contributions were increased, the vote-allocation-bucket for development remained the same size. Which meant there were fewer development contributions being rewarded, albeit with higher rewards for those that top-scored.
(b) The maximum percentages for individual contributions in all other categories also increased, meaning that other categories filled more of their own buckets, with less spare capacity available to be spread to development / translations.
I think that this will be more apparent when I post up the January analysis.
The age-weighted sorting is a good addition. I also think that giving priority to users that haven't received an upvote within the last 7 days (i.e. an additional boolean sort key for the waiting-rewards-queue) might help attract / retain more occasional users. This would not restrict contributors to one upvote a week but would make them more at risk of not receiving an upvote if they have already recently received one.
Am also hoping for a rise in the Steem price. As always!
Good to be back!