If I had the ability I would recreate these two reports.
@statsmonkey
https://peakd.com/steemit/@bitgeek/payout-stats-report-for-15th-december-2017--part-i
Those got shut down for the obvious reasons.
If I could have the sql commands I would do the daily update.
The one thing that really gets me is that they sold the 50% tax on accounts of less than 160k hp as a favor to the little guys.
It was 'to bring the abuse out into the open', lol, the only abuse it exposed was how greedy those with more than 160k hp really are.
Imagine taking pennies from starving third worlders because you need moar.
Smdh.
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I've always known that many of the first million accounts were stincy sockpuppets, thanks for shedding light on this.
Less than 20 people got this going, and sockpuppets was one of their tactics.
It appears those days are gone, finally.
As far as things go, this is as good has hive has looked since I got here in aug '16.
The inflation has run off the greediest, and the crab bucket should soon do in the rest.
Then 'we' can go about building a real community here, rather than be forced to exist as outsiders because we don't engage in the corporate speak.
Egalitarianism was not on the minds of those that set this into motion, nor those that made it happen.
Not all bad, but very old skool.
I've got you on the autovoter, I shouldn't miss many posts.
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One of the core stinc coders let the cat out of the bag when he said, 'I don't care about the first million accounts.'
Oh? Why is that?
Because he knew who those first million accounts would turn out to be?
More sunlight, happier hive, iyam.
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Lol, classic.
I always wondered how many regular usernames are taken up by creating 1m sockpuppets.
Seems like a lot of the popular ones would be gone.