I have to be honest, the more I explain this to people, the more I suspect that there has to be a consequence related to time... or in this case, mana. If what you said is correct, then the 2% decay on the vote value that was removed might instead be reflected in the reduction of mana with every subsequent upvote we cast (without waiting 2.4 hours between each one). I’d say that would make sense; otherwise, everyone would just be pressing the upvote button carelessly. I’ll be observing closely once HF28 is in place.
I'm not really sure why people get crazy about this change.
Imagine you have a bucket that you want to empty. The bucket holds 10 liters, and you’re using a 1-liter cup to scoop water out. The current voting system works in such a way that after each scoop, your cup shrinks by 2%. So the more scoops you take, the smaller your cup becomes — and the less water you actually remove from the bucket each time, even though you’re still filling your cup to 100%.
The upcoming change will make it so your cup no longer shrinks, meaning it will take exactly 10 scoops to empty the whole bucket.
In both cases, the bucket still holds 10 liters — the only difference is the number of actions you need (or are able) to take to empty it. Once the bucket is empty, you can’t get anything more out of it, meaning you can't vote and distribute rewards.
In both cases, the amount of water represents your voting mana, which will deplete faster under the new system.
I believe this is a much better explanation of the new system, one that everyone will be able to understand.
I guess it wasn’t communicated clearly enough, which is why we tend to speculate and make assumptions about it. I hope you don’t mind if I quote your explanation in my post; it will help clarify things since I didn’t mention this part of the new system. Thanks!
I have to be honest, the more I explain this to people, the more I suspect that there has to be a consequence related to time... or in this case, mana. If what you said is correct, then the 2% decay on the vote value that was removed might instead be reflected in the reduction of mana with every subsequent upvote we cast (without waiting 2.4 hours between each one). I’d say that would make sense; otherwise, everyone would just be pressing the upvote button carelessly. I’ll be observing closely once HF28 is in place.
I'm not really sure why people get crazy about this change.
Imagine you have a bucket that you want to empty. The bucket holds 10 liters, and you’re using a 1-liter cup to scoop water out. The current voting system works in such a way that after each scoop, your cup shrinks by 2%. So the more scoops you take, the smaller your cup becomes — and the less water you actually remove from the bucket each time, even though you’re still filling your cup to 100%.
The upcoming change will make it so your cup no longer shrinks, meaning it will take exactly 10 scoops to empty the whole bucket.
In both cases, the bucket still holds 10 liters — the only difference is the number of actions you need (or are able) to take to empty it. Once the bucket is empty, you can’t get anything more out of it, meaning you can't vote and distribute rewards.
In both cases, the amount of water represents your voting mana, which will deplete faster under the new system.
I believe this is a much better explanation of the new system, one that everyone will be able to understand.
I guess it wasn’t communicated clearly enough, which is why we tend to speculate and make assumptions about it. I hope you don’t mind if I quote your explanation in my post; it will help clarify things since I didn’t mention this part of the new system. Thanks!