Week 3 report for #project-smackdown, the project reporting on the top self comment voters and flagging the top 20 self voted comments every day.
Flags are made with accounts @smackdown.kitty and @sadkitten
Note, all "dollar" valuations in SBD, the native unit for rewards.
Summary
This week there was a drop high self voting payout for comments (comments self voted to a value of $1 or above). Of course this may hide larger numbers of up votes at smaller value, like the way that @tard operates (check out this post for an example).
There were 324 high value self voted comments, totalling $1,643.19
Top 20 comment self rewarded voters
In order: @sigizzang, @damarth, @adsactly, @fulltimegeek, @surfyogi, @grognak, @johnsmith, @danlupi, @corn113, @craig-grant, @mexbit, @jack8831, @kingscrown, @adm, @oldtimer, @davebrewer, @greenman, @cob, @tard, @bayrene
[NEW] Extrapolated Annual ROI
We have been criticized for taking these values as absolute and not considering that users are entitled to a reward relative to their stake (as well as, I would add, their social platform input). In any case, putting these dollar amounts into context with each user's stake would be helpful.
I have prepared a rough measurement of the annual ROI (return on investment) of the top users. It is extrapolated from this week's snapshot of their activity, so it presumes that the same self voting rewards will happen each week. This of course does not necessarily hold, but it give us some context of their behavior if it were to continue.
The formula is: (weekly_reward x 52) / (SP_converted_to_SBD), and x100 to convert to present as a percentage
This shows all with EA ROI greater than 1%
Note that this is the return for only self voted comments. It does not include the return for self voted main posts, or from any votes from anyone but the user. So the total rewards would generally be higher, but we do not have the information here of by much. As such it is best viewed as a minimum.
[NEW] Average reward per self voted comment
for users with comments above $1 in self reward
Here are the top few with average self vote comment reward per comment above $5, and showing number of self voted comments in brackets beside the name.
The averaging will show if what the general comment self voting behavior is. However it does not show a comparison of self voting compared to outward voting.
Other
This week I will skip the particular author break down. For the 4 week review, after the 4th week which is next, I will do a review on what trends we've seen, including particular voter trends, that might be more interesting than just for one week.
Previous reports
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And for engaging me in debate on this subject. We continue forward to do what we can to keep this issue noticed.