Hello Steemit,
Lately I've seen this practice where certain accounts, usually of the whale variety, will flag (or downvote) a post, not because it is spam or plagiarism or some sort of abuse like that, but because "it makes too much".
I can understand this. The idea is that this one post is sucking away a large part of the reward pool, and leaves the remaining posts with less to go around, so flagging this post is a way to spread the wealth.
However I think this is a bad strategy, and would recommend a different path. Instead of flagging that one post that is being rewarded too much, why not find about 10 under rewarded posts and vote them up.
Let's take a look at both scenarios:
- Flagging one post:
if you flag one post, you'll end up with one very unhappy person. We will call this
-1 Happy.
Flagging gets you no curation, so your curation award is
0
- Upvoting ten posts:
If you upvote ten posts, you'll end up with 10 mildly happy people, each one being 0.2 happy
10 * 0.2 = 2 happy
Also you'll receive 10 curation awards, so your curation awards are
10 curations
Conclusion:
It's plain to see that 2 happy > -1 happy and
10 curations > 0 curation
So I believe that upvoting 10 deserving posts is the better outcome.
