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RE: Blockchain and the End of the Western Civilization
with 33 votes you are probably not too far. But 12 SBD ... that's disappointing ! Thank you for offering your opinion, trufflepig!
with 33 votes you are probably not too far. But 12 SBD ... that's disappointing ! Thank you for offering your opinion, trufflepig!
Haha, sorry :-). Still, I wouldn't see it that way. Already over 10 SBD is not bad. The distribution of payouts on this platform is heavily long-tailed with a few posts that get paid at all (some of them extraordinarily though) and the vast majority of posts gets close to nothing.
I did look further into the issue, and I can only emphasize again that 12 SBD is in fact already a very good result! I peaked at the payout distribution in the training set and it is worse than I first anticipated.
The average payout is 6 SBD (and 15 votes) and your post already got twice as much. However, the median payout is - brace yourself - 0.1 SBD (and 5 votes). The distribution is so heavily skewed it's almost unbelievable, more than two thirds of all posts earn less than 1 SBD!
That is a super insight, I would love to see such an analysis being published as post in its own right, it deserves better than being a mere comment (even on my admittedly "outstanding article" :-D))))
Well, actually I use this for weekly updates on @trufflepig now. Note that the numbers come out a bit differently, because I only look at the bot's training data after cleaning, i.e. videos, memes, and photos have been filtered (pushing the average reward down).