The whole point is it was part of EIP, so we need to evaluate the effectivess of the economic improvement.

I'm certain the downvotes have worked - fewer bots, less abuse because more retaliation. I think the curation has worked - my rewards are up but could be related to fewer bots. I have my doubts about convergent linear - we can counter microfarming with our own bots and DV using bots.

In fact, I think the only important improvement was free downvotes. You worry about them being sold and abused. This is really rare. Doing that just finds people in a war.

I also cannot argue with increased curation. There was way too much crap being published and self upvoted. We need more data though.