OK, let's do HF9 first
BIP 0003
Removing the last twelve hours curation penalty because it is a system inherited from the chain we forked from that no longer plays any role on Blurt considering that there is no rewards regulation on Blurt.
I would leave it as it is
Hi, @mariuszkarowski,
Leaving it is pointless since it serves no purpose.
The 12-hour window was introduced to fight bots and farmers who only voted in the last few seconds to prevent people from detecting their operations and being subject to downvotes. Since rewards regulation do not exist on Blurt, then it would be pointless to have it. Removing it would allow users to vote freely for seven days. Communities who engage in manually curation can highly benefit from this since they will have 12 more hours to schedules their votes without having to pass contributions due to power availability.
With the new reward curve and removal of the 5-minute window, a farmer would be better off just upvoting his posts exactly after creating them.
What about farming in last 5 mins so post avoids been seen on trending/hot so the farmer is less likely to be spotted (not that there is much we can do anyway).
This would imply that a farmer cares about his reputation. If one starts to openly engage in farming to max his ROI, then nothing matters to him anymore. We even think that having them farm late is better, since we do not have to see them trending and pollute the landing page.
It is not ideal, but this something that we will have to live with since reward regulation is absent.
We actually remember a proposition that was suggested in the past that could help with farming a bit without reward regulation. Will make sure to present it when the time comes.
You are correct the benefits may not be worth the engineering to remove since the post would almost be expiring. One benefit of keeping it is that it deters farmers voting in the last minutes when their self-votes won’t be noticed as easily since the post would no longer appear on hot or trending after payout.
The benefit of removing it would be to improve UX, it is very difficult to explain to users on the UI about the mechanics of this as as a result most don’t show the voter that their vote is worth less in this time.