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Oh... But the flags must have been allocated for a different reason then, because during the experiment only whales who continued upvoting were downvoted to balance out rewards.

It made sense since the rewards were re-distributed to smaller accounts. I remember that my upvotes were ten times heavier than before.

That was no sustainable solution, but it showed possibilities.

Not true! I am not a whale, not even a Dolphin at that time and I got flagged by @smooth because some whale voted for me. I never complained and just moved on.

Then they balanced out the whale votes, that makes sense.