There's a misunderstanding about the weights and how they affect rewards. I've mentioned it in my post, but I'll repeat it here: the new system is actually much more favorable to later voters than the current one. Having 1/8 the weight for voters in the third window does not mean they will receive 1/8 of the reward they would otherwise get. The computation is more complicated than that.
For example, if most votes are in the second window, not in the first, then the voters get basically the same reward as if they voted in the first window. The same reasoning applies to the third window. The old algorithm rapidly penalized late voters, the new algorithm is much more gradual. But it does leave in place some incentive to vote before other voters, although the incentive is much less.
Ok ! That you for clarifying ! Even in your post I did not understand that !
This looks even better now !
Anyway, I think that we can only really analyze the impact once it will be in production. I'm not too worried about that because I don't think we can do worse than the current system 🤣
The only risk I see is the risk of laziness of some people voting on trending without fearing a drop in reward but on the other hand others looking for forgotten quality posts. But for that it will be necessary to optimize the search engine function (there is already a progress on this side with the work of
good-karma) which is a central point of a social website.ps: I thought that by putting your name in ``, it would not make any noise in your notifications, I was wrong? BTW, thanks for your stop here and the explanation