Some of you may have noticed the problem where rewards change.
I managed to capture what this looks like, and have some theory about what causes it, and how to improve this function.
started tracking this after I noticed reward changing over time without interactions like voting, I thought it would be good to get some data points to see if there is a pattern in an attempt to understand the underlying cause of it. You may have noticed this happens across all posts/comments/etc at roughly the same percentage over time, but did anyone notice it also increases sometimes?
the overall trend during my tracking was down,
but it sometimes moves up.
the way in which it changes resembles something else
It seems the payout is an estimated value scaled to the current value of STEEM
this is perfectly reasonable, but there are some problems with it!
problem #1: the potential to ruin hype.
(HEY EVERYONE MY FIRST POST MADE $10 ON STEEMIT!!! wait... nevermind...)
problem #2: the potential to create superstitions.
(every time I upvote some else's post the value of mine goes down! I'm never voting again!)
problem #3: the potential to create paranoia.
(someone's out to get me downvoting all my comments/posts! I got shadowbanned!)
The issue is lacking an explanation for why it happens.
I think the interface needs some adjustment to indicate what the payout is linked to,
here is my version of what that might look like:
the $ value would change over time from scaling value, but the 1st value would not.
thanks for reading
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