After some delay, I present to you the first weekly report for #project-smackdown.

What is #project-smackdown

Briefly, it is part of the #steem-coop group effort to challenge uncooperative voting on Steemit. The #project-smackdown part consists of publishing stats on the top comment self voters and flagging these comments up to (but no more than) their self voted value.

Currently we are just flagging the top 20 comments. We are doing this primarily as disagreement for comment self voting, believing that the "tallest poppies" are most effective to rebuke, as they have the greatest effect.

#steem-coop is also trying to come up with hard fork proposal solutions to disincentivize uncooperative voting at a blockchain systems level. See the end of this post for some links.

Summary stats

Note that all "dollar" values are in SBD, as this is the native payout unit.

I will summarize the week by comments and then by authors.

Week 1 by comments

All top 20 per day self voted comments (140 for entire week) ordered by pending payout

Small version, uncolored, without author names

This is just to get an idea of the shape of it.

Remember that each bar is a single comment.

Long version, colored

Week 1 by authors

Share ratio of author - from total comment self vote rewards of top 20 per day across the week

As pie chart

Total rewards : $1673.069

Top 10 authors (by pending payout / reward) appearing in top 20 on more than one day

In order of share ratio (see pie chart above)

Note that this chart design is my own original design 😁 One bar per day, with one segment per user (all self voted comment rewards for that day summed) and order highest rewarded user to lowest vertically decending.

The wavy area is to show the connection between days. Note that it does not obey the statistical chart area rule.

@sigizzang - week total = $331.382

@dang007 - week total = $270.991

@davidding - week total = $245.862

@mrwalt - week total = $161.851

@ramta - week total = $150.932

@greatpath - week total = $87.112

@inventor16 - week total = $76.677

@pal - week total = $49.845

@oldtimer - week total = $41.558

@craig-grant - week total = $28.598

Thoughts

A total of 12 authors appeared on in the top 20 list more than one day, so we can see that there are some authors which are self voting their comments for high rewards quite frequently.

One stand out self voter was @glitterfart who has the top self voted comment reward for the week, but did not appear any other time.

Note that @smackdown.kitty and @sadkitten attempted to counter every reward in this report. We did not have enough SP to do this but it was close in many cases.

Problem with this data and representation

A few days from the end of week 1 I started to record the top 100 self voted comments and I found this to be a more interesting picture. We saw on July 18th, the last day of week 1 that when @dayu 's comment rewards were summed from the top 100, they were more than twice the 2nd most highly rewarded author.

I think while the top 20 is useful for seeing the absolute top , the top 100 paints a more relevant picture. Next week (which actually ends in one day since I was so late with this report) will focus more on the top 100 summary stats.

#steem-coop members posts related to uncooperative voting

@transisto - Two proposed HF policy change for countering reward based abuses.

@calamus056 - Self-voting user list since HF19

@rycharde - Proposal for New Rules Regarding Self-Votes and Voting-Rings

See my blog or the tag #project-smackdown for the individual reports for the first week.

Thank you for your interest

Please continue to follow the reports and let us know what you think!