Good points.
We should look into this kind of behaviour, though I believe these algorithms should be a bit more lenient than cutting the voting power by half after 4 votes.
Sometimes I discover a new steemer and vote on most of their new posts because I like them. If I vote with a low vote-power (Since the HF made the number of full-power votes we can use per day pretty low), it'd be practically null if I vote on more than 6-8 posts in a row for that person XS
I'd say it should be scaled for those who are clearly profiteering off the system (Say, self-upvotes themselves 20 times a day or voting circles that are constant, no matter the content or length, and that number in the 25+ accounts, maybe).
It will all depend on how we want the community to evolve.
Oh, and your estimate that we can only really upvote a max of 60 times...
Do take into account our coming merging with AI/Brain Machine interfaces and the new speed we'll be at at that point XP
Thanks. But it just means you may stop at just 4 votes - look along the rows and even the 20% drop adds up to a total of 2.95 (almost 3) for 4 votes. That means you can give that one person the equivalent of 4 votes at 75%. The aim is to make it less profitable to start going much above that. Giving 7 or 8 votes is equivalent to 50% power.
I have that dilemma too when curating; but also don't forget that we are operating at x4 power to pre-HF19 and have adjusted to that. As far as the whole Steem ecosystem is concerned, if we can do something that reverses the drain on the reward pool, then all genuine votes will be worth more. I will have to check if the reward pool is now stable yet, but it has declined significantly recently.
Oh, ok.
I doubt Id ever run into someone where Id uovite mire than 7-8 posts, so your algorithms might work pretty well.
Do tell if the pool seems stable, it'd be interesting to kniw :)
Idk, i actively support certain users who are supporting me, usually not all of the same people. But i make a point to go through my followers and follows to see whats out there. Also i seek out new content from people i havent met yet. Sometimes, or eventually that could slip in to a circular voting pattern. But there are plenty who are happy to game the system for what they can. Better we can lower the profits on that type of activity benefits the whole community