See my reply to BP below. If you just send it back to the pool, it will end up distributed the same way as the pool currently is. If youre sacrificing 50% to the reverse auction now, and you send it allback to the pool, all youll do is just double everyone's curation rewards.
A big part of the problem is that even though the reverse auction effects the payout for early voters, it doesn't change their weight, so they still dominate the curation rewards distribution, they just give up most of the funds their domination entitles them to.
The real solution to this is to attenuate their effective voting stake in the auction, not their reward. That is to say, if you vote at the 90% RA mark (3.3 minutes in), then for the distribution of curaiton rewards, your vote should count likeyou had 10% of your SP. So a 100K SP voter in the third minute shouldbe treated for distribution purposes like a 10Ksp voter.
Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe this should be explored more. I'm sure we'll chat about it.
I maintain that's a design feature, not a problem. The purpose of the reverse auction is to reduce curation rewards for easy votes. Period. It must make obvious strategies self-defeating.
Because people who want to upvote themselves are going to do it regardless. It's not like there is another solution for them to cheat the system. The fact that we hardly see anyone upvoting themselves means its a non issue.
Why do you need a curve at all? Isn't voting power based on how much power someone has? There is no need for a curve which is why I suggested we remove it.
Whales could already upvote themselves now and make a significant amount of money why are none doing it?
Downvoting is not a hack, it is already built in. You just have to use the feature.
The algorithms happens to penalize almost every single posts on the platform, surely it can't be the best solution right..