#project-smackdown week 4 report - last report on v1 algorithm

Week 4 report for #project-smackdown, the project reporting weekly on the top self comment voters and flagging the top 20 self voted comments every day.

From weeks 1 to 4, top 20 self voted comments has been ordered using self awarded payout value. However from week 5 I am happy to announce that we are switching to a ROI (return on investment) metric, which takes into account stake.

Our principle against self voting has not changed, however how we are measuring the worst self voting is changing from absolute value (the amount self awarded from the rewards pool) to ROI (the relative self voting behavior of the self voter). I will explain further in week 5 report, the activity of which is already underway.

Flags are made with accounts @smackdown.kitty and @sadkitten, but after this week @sadkitten is only used for spam down voting / flagging. See this post for more details.

Apologies for the lateness of this report but my time was very taken up by @sadkitten work.

Note, all "dollar" valuations in SBD, the native unit for rewards.

Also note that, as always, we are only looking at comments, not root posts.

Summary

There was a continued drop of high self voting payout for comments (comments self voted to a value of $1 or above).

We can also see an anomalous spike on the 4th August. This was due to @ned self voting a comment to 100% ! This was this comment and made on a post touting a controversial claim by @l0k1 via @benjojo. @ned self voted to 10% the previous day when he post it, changed to 100% and then changed again to cancel it on the 5th, after @smackdown.kitty, @sadkitten and also @ausbitbank flagged it, with comments asking for self vote removal. Clearly it was a visibility strategy.

So since they are comments by the big kahuna of the platform and the votes were cancelled, I think they qualify as outliers and not of interest in the report and they have been removed. See the updated summary. The total self voted comment payout is the lowest yet.

Top 20's

by total comment self vote reward

In order: @grognak, @johnsmith, @sigizzang, @surfyogi, @musicholic, @netoso, @mrwalt, @damarth, @virus707, @greatpath, @steem-buzz, @oceancoinz, @ehujra, @tommyhansen, @marco-desalto, @sneak, @danlupi, @sebastianjago, @salva82, @warjar

by average comment self vote reward

Number in brackets beside name is number of high value self voted comments.

In order: @sneak, @damarth, @sigizzang, @trevonjb, @xeroc, @musicholic, @greatpath, @cob, @helikopterben, @davebrewer, @peerplays, @johnsmith, @lonidani, @mrwalt, @virus707, @netuoso, @pfunk, @marco-desalto, @salva82, @leomichael

by extrapolated annual ROI

Note that this is not a summary of all blockchain activity, only the activity of the self voted comments valued above $1

In order: @grognak, @steem-buzz, @johnsmith, @netuoso, @warjar, @oceancoinz, @mrwalt, @sebastianjago, @chhaylin, @ehujra, @greensmile, @virus707, @marco-desalto, @surfyogi, @musicholic, @tommyhansen, @darthnava, @completelyanon, @sigizzang, @danlupi

Is that it?

I'll leave it to the reader to interpret this week. I'll leave my more detailed thoughts for the 4 week round up I'll be doing in the next few days, summarizing the first 4 weeks of #project-smackdown, looking at the trends and the accounts which are most prominent.

Previous week's reports

• Week 3
• Week 2
• Week 1

Thanks for your support if you give it, or the chance to show you why we do this if not. 😸