Sir Glen, do you think these changes are good? The 50/50 split sounds like it might be an improvement. I don't know how the downvote pool should work, I never thought of it. what about the linear curve thing, is that good?
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At this point, who knows. There's just as good a chance they will things worse as better. Meaning, it will only make the behaviors they say they're wanting to discourage (self-upvoting, bidbot use and SP leasing) even worse because they'll be more profitable than ever. They're basically saying people who haven't been inclined to curate suddenly will, and those who are curating will do even more.
I doubt that any of it will encourage manual curation. More likely, the higher SP folks will end up on curation trails or some kind of autovoting (the ones that are already will just end up dividing their upvotes more, if that's even possible).
I don't see it helping authors any, unless there's an increase in STEEM value, because there just aren't enough high SP accounts around to make up for all the active low SP accounts.
So, who knows. The downvote thing is already abused. I don't see how taking away the penalty helps that. Supposedly, it's going to lead to people downvoting stuff on the trending page more that used bid bots to get there.
Funny thing about all of this is, if there's been one bidbot owner up in arms about this, I haven't seen a single post about it. Or maybe I have. Fyrstikken may have said something. Regardless, bidbot owners' not being agitated makes me wonder how this is all going to go down.
Wow sir Glen, with all the important moves they could make and real changes needed..it looks like this hardfork will be a waste of time!
Well, who knows. I'd like them to test this, run a simulation based on historical data, but apparently that's not good enough. They want to see the changes in behavior, too, which they won't see otherwise. Well, I'd say, change the behavior first, then do the historical data simulation. That way we're not upheaving the entire chain just for a few higher SP folks who think they've come up with the magic bullet. Actually, some aren't saying that. Some are saying they don't know if it's going to really accomplish anything, which means, if this were government, that this is the foot in the door step for something else. :)
well so far I don't like the hardforks here very well! lol.