Lots of you guys have been asking us when the votes will start. The answer is now!
We re behind our original schedule because we thought of enhancements along the way, we hope you will forgive us for taking some more time to get to this ;)
Finally, we give it to you :
The SteemPlus Voting Bot!
It's here and it started with over 15,000 SP coming from both @stoodkev and @steem-plus accounts.
It gives a maximum $0.86 upvote for now, and we will work on getting more delegations along the way.
How does it work ?
This bot is based on the number of SteemPlus Points (SPP) you have.
Once a day, Steemplus will vote for your newest post of a day. In order to promote engagement on the blockchain, only the posts of the day are upvoted.
Let's see how this works:
All SPP holders who posted since last round (day) form the pool. The number of users actively posting will thus affect the votes.
Users all get a vote at percentage = your_SPP / totalSPP * 1000 (1000 represent the 10 100% upvotes we can use per day).
If some users are granted a vote over 100%, which is technically impossible to achieve, the remaining percentage is shared between the other users.
We won't vote under 0.1%.
To get bigger upvotes, make sure you read our article on how to earn SPP.
Data on our first round of votes
Our first voting round ended up with the following statistics :
64 posts voted
3 posts rejected (vote <0.1%)
Min vote : 0.1%
Max vote : 100% ($0.86)
Average vote : 15.61%
Standard deviation : 24.31%
Other improvements
We improved the SPP calculation by doing the following :
Waiting to see if there is a refund on MinnowBooster transactions before distributing the corresponding SPP.
Writing Steem and SBD price along with some global dynamic properties on transactions in order to make a fast replay of the SPP calculation using SteemSQL.
Transfering from the Voting Power to the Voting Mana system.
The welcoming bot scheduler has been deactivated.
Future developement for this bot
As our SP increases and votes start representing more than a few cents, we will start factoring the quality in our votes :
Using existing blacklists, and letting a way for users to contact us to be out of this list
Excluding some tags
Using UA score as a quality factor (if our vote gets quite big)
Set the environment variables (information received by transfer when you subscribe to SteemSQL). These environment variables are LOGIN, PASSWORD, SQL_API and DB.
