08-23-2021, 04:26 PM
Calculating the effect of downvoting on MOON distributions
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>/<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/">r/CryptoCurrency</a> is currently ranked #10 for posts per day - yet ranked #1198 for post karma. Such a huge discrepancy is blamed on the reluctance of users to award karma and/or downvoting.</p> <p><strong>But does downvoting actually make a difference?</strong></p> <p>93.65% of users received less than 100 MOONs in the last distribution. But for simplicity, let's look at this from the perspective of a user who earned 100 MOONs:</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left">Downvotes</th> <th align="left">MOONs Gained</th> </tr> </thead><tbody> <tr> <td align="left">10</td> <td align="left">0.00016</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">100</td> <td align="left">0.00157</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">1000</td> <td align="left">0.01562</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">10000</td> <td align="left">0.15642</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">63405</td> <td align="left">1.00013</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><sup>Data: 1,710,052 MOONs were distributed last month, based on 6,403,903 karma (MOONs/karma ratio of 0.267. I assume 1 upvote = 1 karma, however, in reality, karma is awarded with diminishing returns.</sup></p> <p><strong>To realise a 1% gain i.e. +1 additional MOON, you would have had to remove 63,405 karma from the pool.</strong></p> <p>That's a colossal and utterly futile task that not only discourages people from participating in <a href="/r/CryptoCurrency">/r/CryptoCurrency</a> but will, ultimately, devalue MOONs in the long-term as people lose interest and leave. <strong>In other words</strong>: congratulations, you played yourself.</p> <p>The median user in the last round gained 2.67 MOONs (based on 10 karma). You will have gained virtually nothing by downvoting. </p> <p>Nevertheless, downvoting is an important part of filtering low-quality content, misinformation etc. - just don't waste your time doing it for the sole purpose of MOONs.</p> <p><strong>TLDR</strong>: No, for a given user - the effect is absolutely tiny or zero.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Zarkorix"> /u/Zarkorix </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p9u5ft/calculating_the_effect_of_downvoting_on_moon/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p9u5ft/calculating_the_effect_of_downvoting_on_moon/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>/<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/">r/CryptoCurrency</a> is currently ranked #10 for posts per day - yet ranked #1198 for post karma. Such a huge discrepancy is blamed on the reluctance of users to award karma and/or downvoting.</p> <p><strong>But does downvoting actually make a difference?</strong></p> <p>93.65% of users received less than 100 MOONs in the last distribution. But for simplicity, let's look at this from the perspective of a user who earned 100 MOONs:</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left">Downvotes</th> <th align="left">MOONs Gained</th> </tr> </thead><tbody> <tr> <td align="left">10</td> <td align="left">0.00016</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">100</td> <td align="left">0.00157</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">1000</td> <td align="left">0.01562</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">10000</td> <td align="left">0.15642</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">63405</td> <td align="left">1.00013</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><sup>Data: 1,710,052 MOONs were distributed last month, based on 6,403,903 karma (MOONs/karma ratio of 0.267. I assume 1 upvote = 1 karma, however, in reality, karma is awarded with diminishing returns.</sup></p> <p><strong>To realise a 1% gain i.e. +1 additional MOON, you would have had to remove 63,405 karma from the pool.</strong></p> <p>That's a colossal and utterly futile task that not only discourages people from participating in <a href="/r/CryptoCurrency">/r/CryptoCurrency</a> but will, ultimately, devalue MOONs in the long-term as people lose interest and leave. <strong>In other words</strong>: congratulations, you played yourself.</p> <p>The median user in the last round gained 2.67 MOONs (based on 10 karma). You will have gained virtually nothing by downvoting. </p> <p>Nevertheless, downvoting is an important part of filtering low-quality content, misinformation etc. - just don't waste your time doing it for the sole purpose of MOONs.</p> <p><strong>TLDR</strong>: No, for a given user - the effect is absolutely tiny or zero.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Zarkorix"> /u/Zarkorix </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p9u5ft/calculating_the_effect_of_downvoting_on_moon/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p9u5ft/calculating_the_effect_of_downvoting_on_moon/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R