I tried to show the issue before, but with less data, and that may not have been enough for people to understand the issue. Here is more data for you to understand the problem going on with the self-appointed reward-police:
Payouts Above $50
Smooth's Flags
* not that these payouts on flags were higher before, you can estimate about 50% more on each about priot to it being flagged.
Payouts Above $50 with No Flags from Smooth
Flagged Posts vs. $50+ Payouts with No Flags from smooth
Maybe you didn't realize this problem existed before, but maybe you can see it now with the data?
As I have said, there are posts that are above the amounts of other posts that smooth decided were "overrewarded". So higher reward posts get a pass for some reason, while lower rewarded posts don't and get flagged. It's irrational, inconsistent, and will not work to "fairly" redistribute the rewards when "rewards are blown up out disproportionately, staving out many other posts". All the higher payout posts starve the lower payout posts. Flagging some posts but not others is not going to correct the quoted issue of some people getting more rewards than others...
Doing this flagging reward-police behavior to some, and not all, is like giving out tickets for some people going 50mph, while not giving tickets out for those who are going at higher speeds such as 100mph. There is no consistency. It's not right. Police giving out tickets this way are called corrupt.
Did you notice ats-david had enormous payouts for 2 days, posts at $175 and $216 for author payout. On the posts the reward is shown as $184 and $227 respectively, which is $411 for two posts in two days, and they were both on the top of trending for a period, at #1 and #2 trending spots.
Where was smooth's flag there? Oops... he didn't flag it because he's a voter on the post at $184. But that's not overrewarded... no... no... So much for the reward-police being honest, consistent and rationally dealing with the problem of "rewards are blown up out disproportionately, staving out many other posts"...
See the problem yet? Hello?
Some people don't see what's going, or don't want to see what's going on, and don't want to go verify my data I had originally put out, and then try to make me into the bad guy for calling this mess out...
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2017-02-27, 12:01pm