RE: Minnowbooster Update Log #9
Wee a $2.15 upvote after curation is still $1.6 or so from which $0.6 are profit. It may not be a big profit, it is consistently dishing out value. And with the gifting feature, minnows can make big votes without needing a lot of SP. For example I use minnowbooster when I want to upvote someone, because I know that the MB upvote gives back more than I invested.
The thing we tried to solve with all our changes is how to bring value while still allowing people to actually use it. If we would vote with bigger % when VP is lower, that would drain us even quicker because the lower we are the more we upvote.
So we started with 5x profit and after a day VP was at 20% because people were fine with voting when they break even before curation. Thet the reward pool dropped and our vote was worth 1/10th of what it were before, so we coded in some limits and reduced the rate a bit to compensate for that.
We then lowered the limits a lot (and got some shit for it and that may be why I reacted a bit harsch to your comment, sorry!) and now VP is at a stable 80% and we are quite happy about that.
To change it back to 5x we would have to lower the daily limit from 1SBD to 0.5SBD. I don't know if we want that but I am certainly up for discussion on it because I too like the incredible 5x boost. But at 80% that will be 4x at best.
The one thing I really don't want is the bot sleeping for some time of the day, because that would base the boost on if you are one of the lucky few to be awake when it works again. That is really unfair and against our statement of being predictable.
I would love to hear your feedback on these issues (and tell me if I missed anything). If you want, we also have a Discord Channel where we can chat :)
@reggaemuffin First of all, apologies for the late reply. Secondly, thank you for the clear and concise reply. I understand your reasoning much better now.
At the point that supply is limited (VPxSP), the question is what the "predictability" you strive for means. Does it mean availability or quantitative predictability.
I think to protect minnows against themselves (they are cute sweet, but breakable colleagues ;) and avoid draining out and giving them negative ROI, it would be better to have a dynamic balancing mechanism, for instance by making the cooldown window variable, dependent on the VP of the bot. The constants which are currently in the algorithm are very hard to maintain if for instance the number of votes, the ammount of the votes or the VP changes.
Alternatively you can create a 'success percentage' for the votes cast (only X% of the submissions, get converted into an upvote and the other part returned to the user, with their time slot burnt).
Just some ideas. Thanks again for the response and keep up the good work