I've been look at a method to use the wisdom of the crowd and perceived lack of interest in highly rewarded content to help with judgement on downvotes...

_{not original source but no reference at IBM.com sooo 🤷}

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At the time of writing and according to my data source (UTC), there are still 8.5 hours left of August 28th 2019. And the total count of downvotes so far today has surpassed the total of any day in the past week. Even more noticeable is the combined weight of these downvotes:

Date	Sum Count	Sum Weight	Full downvote equivalent
01/08/2019	3242	-9720452	972
02/08/2019	3102	-8684254	868
03/08/2019	2134	-6704068	670
04/08/2019	2529	-8214811	821
05/08/2019	1939	-6854359	685
06/08/2019	1641	-4175303	418
07/08/2019	2452	-5814644	581
08/08/2019	2449	-7163653	716
09/08/2019	2812	-10839089	1084
10/08/2019	2790	-7484883	748
11/08/2019	2383	-8832999	883
12/08/2019	1823	-7206883	721
13/08/2019	4534	-8250523	825
14/08/2019	4467	-7209649	721
15/08/2019	3655	-7869205	787
16/08/2019	5524	-8317027	832
17/08/2019	3431	-6248539	625
18/08/2019	3353	-5962928	596
19/08/2019	2863	-6441590	644
20/08/2019	3158	-3636864	364
21/08/2019	2841	-5670519	567
22/08/2019	2331	-3657605	366
23/08/2019	2316	-4737647	474
24/08/2019	2081	-7145175	715
25/08/2019	2522	-7312728	731
26/08/2019	2618	-8319849	832
27/08/2019	2235	-9110369	911
28/08/2019	2698	-16409791	1641

With east coast America still enjoying their morning coffee, the total weight of downvotes today has surpassed any other day this month with many hours to spare.

#newsteem has spoken.

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Prior to the hard fork, there has been discussion on chain (and likely plenty off-chain) regarding where downvotes would be placed - Trending (highly 'valued' content), plagiarism/abuse, and personal vendettas 🤦‍♂️ to name but a few.

There are mechanics in place for the second and I'm not really interested in the third, but what about Trending? Something has to be there - even if every post was zero'd there would still be a list of content (as far as I am aware). And so, how to decide what should be there or not?

As an aside, I just wanted to mention the possibility of having a collection of say 200 accounts (the downvote Oracle?), if say 20 of which downvoted a piece of content, then (all respected) bid-bot votes would be removed auto-magically.

If the terms and conditions of the bots stated this so their users were aware of the risk, and if 200 trusted community members could be found somehow, that could work?

Back to the content with high pending rewards, the wisdom of the crowd, and a piece of script.

_{(for the links to work you will need to add an @ next to the username of the account in the address bar. I have not included it to avoid notifications going out to these accounts 🐥)}

link	comments	pending	$_per_comment
link	1	62.807	62.807
link	1	57.079	57.079
link	1	52.516	52.516
link	1	50.744	50.744
link	1	47.335	47.335
link	0	47.255	47.255
link	1	46.967	46.967
link	1	46.447	46.447
link	0	46.041	46.041
link	1	44.473	44.473
link	1	43.876	43.876
link	0	43.093	43.093
link	2	83.557	41.7785
link	1	41.55	41.55
link	0	41.496	41.496
link	1	41.342	41.342
link	0	41.138	41.138
link	1	40.627	40.627
link	1	39.565	39.565
link	0	38.545	38.545
link	1	38.077	38.077
link	1	37.144	37.144
link	0	37.089	37.089
link	1	34.862	34.862
link	1	34.52	34.52
link	2	66.232	33.116
link	1	32.64	32.64
link	1	32.096	32.096
link	1	31.835	31.835
link	0	31.767	31.767

The above is a list of the top 30 pieces of content that have 2 comments or less, are at least a day old, ordered by their pending payout divided by number of comments.

(0 and 1 comment give the same value to avoid divide by 0 (NAN) errors which isn't ideal)

So the content is at least 24 hours old, and should have had some eyes / views in Hot or Trending, but there is little to no engagement? Why?

• They 'botted' late (post miles from Trending by now)
• They are just starting out and don't have an audience yet
• The content isn't interesting

It is likely to be one of these 3 things and so a manual assessment should be made - just starting out and promoting a couple of posts is fair game?

I looked at the recent posting history of the account and also grouped accounts along with their comment count and pending payouts before deciding on which content I would remove a small allocation of the pending rewards from.

One account had over $350 in pending rewards and < 10 comments across 7 posts....

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Is this a reasonable approach if taking the additional manual steps prior to action?

Or in other words, is highly rewarded content without engagement which is being consistently(persistently) produced by the same account worthy of a downvote?

Anyway, that's how I've chosen my 2.5 a day - today and yesterday. (Watch the engagement rise from those 25 rep friends 😀)

Cheers

Asher