> Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you vote for a post with a max payout, and the post has already hit that max payout amount, is your vote power still impacted?

How you see the top erners to set limit ?

> The practice of setting a max payout adds technical debt.

It's not really technical debt if the solution is well thought out and the programmers do not cut lots of corners. What you're describing is the potential for unseen complexity, i.e. incomplete requirements, where "requirements" are the set of things the software solution is required to implement or address.

As the conditions grow, the problem changes and a different solution may be required. That's one of the challenges of operating in a dynamic and complex environment with poor documentation of the underlying system (code as docs 🙄).

Another way of looking at this is as an incomplete testing problem. For all tested inputs, the software should be act in a verifiably correct way. In the case you describe here, we're missing a test for a range of inputs on each post.

In particular, I don't want readers unfamiliar with the term "technical debt" to think it means the cost incurred by a changing system, or by having to make more API requests.

Side note: My own bot by the way does fetch each individual post as it potentially a lot of analysis on their content and extended metadata.

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Thanks for sharing! A link to your post was included in the Steem.center wiki pages about [Bots](https://www.steem.center/index.php?title=Bots) and [DrPhil Bot](https://www.steem.center/index.php?title=DrPhil_Bot). Thanks and good luck again!

Perhaps we should consider the idea of a STEEMwide maximum, to maintain pool health and eliminate the need for flagging to reduce rewards.  Hmmm.. how does $100 bucks sound?  (readies trash-can-lid-shield)