So it's more about the speed of the rounds?
It is a combination of avoiding the rounding errors and having a consistent round duration. The design is to have 10 votes a day for 100% vote split between bidders. Due to the number of minimum bids and the rounding error, this became impossible. We are still off by a bit, but nowhere near where it was with 1 SBD minimum bid.
If you care to put it out there... for all the lovely people of Steemit, how much do you typically make on a round?
Not much as my delegator takes 95%. I have no idea as I don't track round to round or even daily, I just keep things running and work on stopping spam and abuse and work on my projects.
I don't understand the rounding errors. I get votes from people that are weird percentages and often when a bid is bought, it'll say (for example) bla bla bla a 2.37% upvote. Do the bots not actually vote with finite percentages based on the bids but rather round them off? Meaning it was actually only a 2% vote? Are manual votes treated the same way?
This GitHub Entry explains it well:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/1808
So based in that equation, and given the amount of your SP, people were able to 'cheat' your bot? Makes more sense now. Am glad you talked to me. Thanks for putting things in perspective 😎
I love you two guys. I am SO glad to see this end well, as I was reading down through it with a bit of a knot in my stomach. Because I know you are both on the same side on #TeamGood <3