Top Posts On Steemit - One Year Ago Today #2 - Aug 14 '16 - Top Author Payout $8589 to Dogcoin creator

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In today's "A year ago today" series the top author payout of $8589, was given to @ummjackson - the creator of Dogcoin - that introduced himself to the steemit community.
Another interesting post is from @dantheman where he describes his vision on a balanced platform, and between the paragraphs he describes what he thinks about voting bots. See below a quote:

Objectively Bad Behaviors
As someone who holds to a subjective view of reality, I like to refrain from making absolute value judgements. I also want to avoid pushing my value judgements on other people. So when I talk about objectively bad behavior I will do so without respect to the nature of content or individual voter’s opinions.

The goal of Steem is to reward users proportional to the value they bring. An objectively bad behavior is one where a user manages to get large rewards while providing others with little value. Unfortunately, value is subjective.

While it is hard to differentiate the relative value of two different things, I think something objective can be said for something that provides no value. If we assume that all information has some positive value, then the lack of information has no value. People casting votes communicates information. Every post with unique content contributes information. The value of the information provided is subjective.

A voting robot that votes “randomly” provides no new information. A poster that publishes “random” content also provides no new information. It is all noise. Some people might even say that by increasing the noise floor this kind of behavior consumes resources and destroys information and therefore could have objectively negative value.

What we can conclude from this is that “objectively bad” behavior is any behavior that can be automated using unsophisticated software and which yields the individual oversized profits.

Authors Paying themselves for Doing Nothing
This type of behavior has one user sucking value from the whole while providing no new value. Generally speaking, this kind of behavior is discouraged by the n2 rewards curve. The rate of return for self-voting on garbage post is so low for most users that it isn’t worth the effort. This reward curve forces collaboration and collusion to actually get meaningful value out of the platform.

A whale is a collusive group. This means that a whale has enough stake to earn a huge profit by voting on their own post regardless of post quality. The only thing that keeps whales from frivolously voting on themselves is the potential to be down voted by other whales. This creates a check and balance at the highest levels which protect the system from abuse.

Curation Rewards for Doing Nothing
This type of behavior is when a whale creates a bot that simply up votes everything from reputable users regardless of quality. This kind of behavior can be countered by other whales only by pushing the author rewards toward 0.

Suppose a post is sitting at a $100 pending payout and a whale up votes it to $1000 with a single vote. Other whales see that as abusive and place a counter acting down vote restoring it to $100 pending payout. The abusive whale will get the vast majority of the $25 curation rewards on that post.

When it comes to curation rewards the system is currently unbalanced. There is no way to negate the profits of abusive curators.

For the full post see the link below

Below are the top posts by payout

PostAuthorPayout
I put a dog on a coin and the rest is history - hey Steemit!@ummjackson$8589.701
Charles Hoskinson Steemit AMA@charleshosk$3022.836
SteemSwap - Like Craigslist for STEEM@highlite$2303.125
For the love of God, clean up steemit chat@fairytalelife$2290.764
World Exclusive: First Interview with Jim Bell of Assassination Politics Since Released From Jail@dollarvigilante$2098.661
Negative Voting and Steem@dantheman$1951.822
My Best Photo of The Milky Way Galaxy That I've Ever Taken. Mount Cook, New Zealand. What Do You Think?@daxon$1901.839
JUST ANOTHER DAY (An Original Short Story - Part 1 of 2)@ericvancewalton$1844.64
Why drink stale coffee? (Part 6 Espresso)@justinlaak$1813.987
The other Side of Me@manthostsakirid$1553.474
The Art of Photoshop – How to make your images look professional. Ned Scott on the cover of GQ magazine.@sascha$1503.326
Colonizing Venus: Only 90% as Crazy as it Sounds@alexbeyman$1228.552
Project Orion: The Starship Propelled by Nuclear Bombs@alexbeyman$1164.871
How I got 'hacked', recovered my accounts and improved the Steemit account security@furion$1148.14
Captured Moments - Every Snapshot Has A Story@sirwinchester$1133.597
One scoop or two?@opheliafu$1077.964
THE EDGE (An Original Poem)@ericvancewalton$1037.904
Blackberry Pear Smoothie@healthyrecipes$1022.278
Measuring Steemit Growth: What Every Investor, Developer And User Should Know@xtester$979.665
[Short Story] The Shape of Things to Come: Antarctic researcher who survived the apocalypse recounts how it happened@alexbeyman$865.596
$STEEM/BTC Daily Poloniex+Bittrex Technical Analysis Update #16 "Let's see what you got!" Aug 15, 2016@ozchartart$837.687
Ditch the security blanket: You don't need a Plan B@bridgetbunchy$746.012

Here are the top posts by # of comments

PostAuthor# Of Comments
Negative Voting and Steem@dantheman443
I put a dog on a coin and the rest is history - hey Steemit!@ummjackson205
How I Achieved The #1 Reputation Ranking On Steemit And How You Can Improve Yours@stellabelle173
For the love of God, clean up steemit chat@fairytalelife129
Charles Hoskinson Steemit AMA@charleshosk127
My Best Photo of The Milky Way Galaxy That I've Ever Taken. Mount Cook, New Zealand. What Do You Think?@daxon104
The Unwritten Rules of Steemit@beanz93
A Little Something For the Delusional Anarchists of Steemit@kyriacos88
World Exclusive: First Interview with Jim Bell of Assassination Politics Since Released From Jail@dollarvigilante85
Giving Away 1 MILLION DOGE and some Steem Dollars@venuspcs75
SteemSwap - Like Craigslist for STEEM@highlite66
THE WINNERS - STEEMD ROBOTS AND ROBOHASH MONSTERS (Join me through the process - photos + videos)@anca3drandom57
Choosing the Battleground@larkenrose54
Drawing A Portrait Of @sterlinluxan (FELLOW STEEMER)@kaylinart52
A-pic-a-day: Day 1@royaltiffany51
Colonizing Venus: Only 90% as Crazy as it Sounds@alexbeyman49
Ditch the security blanket: You don't need a Plan B@bridgetbunchy49
The Art of Photoshop – How to make your images look professional. Ned Scott on the cover of GQ magazine.@sascha46
Measuring Steemit Growth: What Every Investor, Developer And User Should Know@xtester44
Daily payouts leaderboards, August 13@masteryoda44
How many users were active last week?@furion43
Steem thought - Steeming for your Muse@benjojo43
One scoop or two?@opheliafu42

Here are the top posts by # of votes

PostAuthor# Of Votes
Negative Voting and Steem@dantheman579
I put a dog on a coin and the rest is history - hey Steemit!@ummjackson536
World Exclusive: First Interview with Jim Bell of Assassination Politics Since Released From Jail@dollarvigilante534
How I Achieved The #1 Reputation Ranking On Steemit And How You Can Improve Yours@stellabelle401
For the love of God, clean up steemit chat@fairytalelife392
My Best Photo of The Milky Way Galaxy That I've Ever Taken. Mount Cook, New Zealand. What Do You Think?@daxon377
Charles Hoskinson Steemit AMA@charleshosk359
Choosing the Battleground@larkenrose322
SteemSwap - Like Craigslist for STEEM@highlite291
Captured Moments - Every Snapshot Has A Story@sirwinchester277
$STEEM/BTC Daily Poloniex+Bittrex Technical Analysis Update #16 "Let's see what you got!" Aug 15, 2016@ozchartart277
Steem Cosmos Station #2: Growing Up After Reincarnation With The Mind Of An Adult@sirwinchester274
The Death of Blab is an opportunity for Steem@dana-edwards272
My Cross Country Roadtrip #3 > SF > LA > Grand Canyon > Page > Santa Fe > Memphis > DC@anwenbaumeister267
JUST ANOTHER DAY (An Original Short Story - Part 1 of 2)@ericvancewalton258
How to Bypass Stress, From a Strictly Extraterrestrial Point of View@the-alien253
THE EDGE (An Original Poem)@ericvancewalton252
The Art of Photoshop – How to make your images look professional. Ned Scott on the cover of GQ magazine.@sascha248
Witness Thread: jesta@jesta248
Drawing A Portrait Of @sterlinluxan (FELLOW STEEMER)@kaylinart246
Measuring Steemit Growth: What Every Investor, Developer And User Should Know@xtester241
Let's All Bash Dan!!!@tuck-fheman240
A Hike Through Lassen Volcanic@anyx237
Jesus Rode a Bicycle in College. Now He’s Looking to Upgrade.@donkeypong234
Daily payouts leaderboards, August 13@masteryoda231


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