There's a guy called haejin who's voting with a possibly stolen account called ranchorelaxo. He randomly votes up the top trending posts with 100% strength without reading them. I have a bot setup that does a lower value downvote to counter some of his upvote, so that trending posts don't get hugely overrewarded versus other posts.
The blockchain gives out a fixed amount of rewards, based on the token price. A downvote simply redistributes the rewards away from one post to all the other posts. So downvoting an overrewarded post just means other posters get a little more for their post. People are constantly upset about how some people's posts are constantly getting more rewards than other deserving posts. Downvoting counters this trend.
ok I did not know that, but if you see that your bot does that, it is good that you leave a comment about why you did it, not because you did not like the post, I thought you did it because you did not like the post
I wish the bot had the ability to leave a comment, but it doesn't. And the voter it's countering usually votes 20-40 times when he does it, so I would waste a lot of time leaving comments.
Thank you for explaining this. It makes a lot of sense. The bot you have downvoted my post and I wasn't really upset about it. I figured it was more of a balancing thing so your explanation confirmed that.
Just wanted to give a shout out to thank you. Have an awesome day! :)
Thanks, you too!