The wording is confusing people. All it means is our limit will be reached faster, making it easier to compete with bots. Nothing else about voting power has changed. Currently we do not maximise the use of our votes until we got 40 at 100% which only autovoters can do. Soon we can maximise just with 10 votes, or knock our power down to 25% to spread our votes out 40 times. This means autovoters will no longer have a huge advantage over people who actually read the posts and probably don't read more than 10 per day.
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I've played Diablo.
I can click more than 40 times a day.
I don't play diablo. And I'd rather have equal opportunity to maximise my votes as somebody who votes arbitrarily and irresponsibly without reading the posts. I'd rather those users didn't have the advantage.
The way I see it, the collusion will increase, as there will be no incentive to vote outside of the usual circle.
Pretty sure the circle jerk trending daily is as bad as it can get. Yes users will vote for themselves. They are often on the same trending page more than once so clearly they can simply post more 4x to get the 4x voting reward. Nothing ever stopped anybody doing that. Apart from the "experiment" which was inherently flawed by only targeting whales instead of daily trenders. I guess if we wanted to address that problem we would have to push voting power down instead of up, increasing the target to 100 votes per day, which of course would further empower bots.
So the question is who is a greater problem. Users who upvote themselves and their friends, or bots making the vast majority of the decisions on how people get rewarded. (Note: bots don't see new users)
Note: My bot sees new users.
The usual gang will hog trending even more - that's my prediction.
I don't think it's possible to hog it more. The only person I can see on it right now who isn't there every day is @trafalgar and he happens to be a whale who doesn't need much help to put himself there. That problem can't be made worse, yet it is not being addressed.
I tried to address this more than once in different channels and on my blog and the main result was that it reduced my average rewards.