Funny how even after all these years, people still point the finger at me. lol
I didn't invent bid-bots, you know that, right? 😉
The current system is like the platform of National Treasure 2, where you can balance it out, even going from one extreme to the other (buying-votes -- EiP), but you can't fix it unless you find a way to get off it.
It wasn't you, who started it.
It was basically ned, when he introduced a linear reward function. Then bernie started with randowhale.
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I just find it hypocritical to first actively farm the rewardpool and then to complain about it afterwards, once you got your stash sorted.
I still think a progressive function like x^2 could solve this, as it incentivizes cummulation of votes and would encourage competition. But that seems totally off the table. And I am tired of explaining this. It was all in the code, you know ...