Hey @saydie,

First, thank for commenting and looking into the data. It is very important to get the correct value as persons might made decisions on that. Its a new project so there can definitely be some errors or edge cases.

I moved from using the stats from hive buzz to hive sql this is imho more / closer to the source of truth and not interpreted by a site already.

Trying to digest the data for these users I assume the following that can explain it.

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Most logical for me is you have 50%/50% rewards payout so 100 HIVE earned is payout as 50 HP and ~22$ in HBD.

In the formula the HBD is not taken into account for this reason:
Hive (liquid and saving) are consider to beneficial for yourself
the same applies for HBD (liquid and savings)
HP is considered as a benefit for the community because you can vote with it and show appreciation towards other members. This value contributes to long term sustainable ecosystem.

So if a person only does a 50%/50% payout it start with a KE of 5 then you receive interest on the HP so i think the number will slowly go down over time. Do not underestimate the compounding effect of interest in that part.

Not sure what the users might have done with the HBD difficult to track down.

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Secondly the user could have used beneficiaries even if the intentions are right it still looks like extracting, this is acceptable withing the 10% range i think if the rest 90% is towards HP for the long time sustainable ecosystem.

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There might be other reasons that i cannot think of.
IMHO there is one thing we can take from this is that also the curators and the contest post have to make the new user aware on this, upfront :).

If I'm correct you should do a 90% HP to 10% HBD rewards share (this is not a option in peakd as far as i know)

I also think we need to look a bit further then only KE ratio for instance if the extracted value is used for growing SPL is that then considered as extracting (not everything is as black and white).

Also seeing accounts that have a high KE ratio and do not own much spl assets still doing these contest post. These are extractor imho and are not good for the ecosystem.

Let me know what you think of this or am i missing something?