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When a whale votes the money is taken from everybody else's vote.
If all the whales vote our votes go to near zero.
Better that they stay out of the rewardpool, then our votes might make it back up to a quarter, imo.

Very true that! We had that situation during "The Experiment" when whales beyond a certain size stayed away from distributing the reward pool. This left much more influence (AND incentives) for the individual non-whale curators.

Half of the value of my vote has gone to increased rewards for the 1%.

The top accounts can't vote without noticeably lowering the value of everybody else's votes.
But they have made it clear for over a year, that they don't care and are happy to float along on the backs of dupes.

Yeah! Stinc rules!