A year or so back, I made myself fairly unpopular in the SportsTalkSocial community for producing posts like this, and this, and this.
I was called such things as racist, a bigot, and cyber-bully - let's see how we go today!
Image from pixabay
Actually, on running a similar script today to look through just over 1100 LEO account holders (having at least 100 LEO staked), the good news is that it's nowhere near as bad as things were in SportsTalkSocial.
The script looks at votes placed on authors in the past 7 days, where a voter has voted for an author at least 15 times. The table below is ordered by the sum of vote weight. E.g. 63.00 means 63 100% votes by the voter on this author.
| Voter | Author | Count | Full Vote Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| indextrader24 | indextrader24 | 63 | 63.00 |
| jeffjagoe | jeffjagoe | 49 | 48.00 |
| chrono.leo | chronocrypto | 45 | 45.00 |
| limka | python13 | 42 | 42.00 |
| davedickeyyall | davedickeyyall | 41 | 41.00 |
| klausklaus | klausklaus | 36 | 36.00 |
| dreimaldad | bemotivated | 29 | 29.00 |
| limka | nasty-123 | 29 | 29.00 |
| exyy | exyy | 28 | 28.00 |
| captaincryptic | playbyhive | 26 | 26.00 |
| indextrader24 | janasilver | 26 | 26.00 |
| ackza | ackza | 23 | 23.00 |
| anthonyadavisleo | jfang003 | 47 | 22.89 |
| valth | starwarz | 22 | 22.00 |
| kstop1 | kstop1 | 22 | 22.00 |
| wdougwatson | bemotivated | 21 | 21.00 |
| javiersebastian | bemotivated | 21 | 21.00 |
| jparke.leo | taskmaster4450le | 21 | 21.00 |
| limka | tgc | 21 | 21.00 |
| dragosroua | vikthor | 21 | 21.00 |
| pizzapai | classicmemes | 20 | 20.00 |
| dmytrokorol | starwarz | 20 | 20.00 |
| javiersebastian | vapenation | 20 | 20.00 |
| apprentice001 | apprentice001 | 20 | 20.00 |
| wiseagent | wiseagent | 20 | 20.00 |
| ybanezkim26 | ocd | 20 | 19.50 |
| drutter | drutter | 22 | 19.25 |
| dave-hughes | cryptoindex | 19 | 19.00 |
| dmytrokorol | vapenation | 19 | 19.00 |
| abdullahyusuf | bemotivated | 19 | 19.00 |
| shortsegments | rollandthomas | 24 | 18.70 |
| ironshield | ironshield | 19 | 18.29 |
| eirik | thatgermandude | 18 | 18.00 |
| javiersebastian | starwarz | 18 | 18.00 |
| georgeknowsall | cryptoindex | 18 | 18.00 |
| iliasdiamantis | knowhow92 | 18 | 18.00 |
| leoneil.leo | honeysaver | 18 | 18.00 |
| bastter | marianaemilia | 17 | 17.00 |
| kapengbarako | cryptoindex | 17 | 17.00 |
| aibolit66 | jehovahwitness | 17 | 17.00 |
| leoup | rollandthomas | 17 | 17.00 |
| limka | rollandthomas | 17 | 17.00 |
| aussieninja | happyme | 17 | 17.00 |
| brianphobos | chekohler | 17 | 17.00 |
| hodol | rollandthomas | 17 | 17.00 |
| casberp | wiseagent | 17 | 17.00 |
| jondoe | rollandthomas | 16 | 16.00 |
| leeyh2 | rollandthomas | 16 | 16.00 |
| empoderat | taskmaster4450 | 16 | 16.00 |
| diverse | rollandthomas | 16 | 16.00 |
| enginewitty | latino.romano | 16 | 16.00 |
| valth | jehovahwitness | 16 | 16.00 |
| cranium.leo | cryptospa | 20 | 15.63 |
| erikah | cryptoandcoffee | 16 | 15.50 |
| hodlcommunity | moon333 | 16 | 15.48 |
| wdougwatson | jehovahwitness | 15 | 15.00 |
| rezoanulv.leo | taskmaster4450le | 15 | 15.00 |
| sumatranate.leo | taskmaster4450le | 15 | 15.00 |
| drax.leo | taskmaster4450 | 15 | 15.00 |
| cranium.leo | cranium.leo | 15 | 15.00 |
| jrcornel | brianphobos | 15 | 15.00 |
| adambarratt | taskmaster4450le | 15 | 15.00 |
| jkr88 | taskmaster4450le | 15 | 15.00 |
| specific | taskmaster4450le | 15 | 15.00 |
| aibolit66 | bemotivated | 15 | 15.00 |
Caveats and thoughts
The content is not specific to LeoFinance. And so, indextrader24 may not have voted with LP on 63 of their own posts/comments. However, totals like this are a bit worrying for HP / Other tribe tokens.
Popular authors that post a lot get lots of votes! And they should, shouldn't they? For the most part I would say yes, especially if they don't self-vote excessively. Although, how much content is too much, and how many self-votes are allowed?
I think it is down to the community, and larger stakeholders in particular to be good whales/lions and perhaps slap a few fish/cubs to keep the place in order.
In defense of rollandthomas, who has stated in discord that he will 'self-vote less', if he gave out 70 100% votes each week his 7 day percentages would look a lot better! (8 full self-votes are 56% of his total distribution in the past 7 days)
Chin up Rolland, distribute some more LEO with that LP of yours!
Cheers
Ash