<p>Insomnia has its benefits. <br />
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Today, way early in the morning (for NL), I ended up <em>eavesdropping</em> on an ongoing conversation between @bacchist &amp; @churdtzu on one of the rocket chat channels. I found it informative and curious, especially if you are at least a little interested in how systems behind what we take for granted  works.<br />
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<p>It started with, following the trend of past several days =P, a comment on whales powering down. But it quickly moved to a more interesting point, at least for me. This is not so much a rant about how sometimes certain type of content gets payed a lot while some very well written, insightful posts don't get a dime. It's more about 'why' it might be resulting that way more often than not. How the vote-power &amp; payout system worked at this point, and how it seemed to favor the already highly rewarded ones. The intended psychology and the design of it for the user. It's not a detailed talk, it's just two people exchanging some thoughts and thus a very very easy read and I believe is enough to make one curious.</p>
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I'm no dev, but I'm sure that white-paper and the ongoing tweaks that are applied to steemit are not done or taken lightly by the designers of this complex system. Still tho, I found myself agreeing with some of the sentiments below. I've asked permission from them both to share this with the rest of the community and hopefully peak a few more peoples interests on the topic. &quot;Without making it sensationalist&quot; just leaving it as an open question. </p>
<p>What are the benefits of the current design, what are the cons, in short and long term?</p>
<h2>If you were a dev, how would you design the payout structure?</h2>
<p>I hope it will spark a discussion or at least reach a few more people, that might not be following the chat platform.<br />
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Cheers!<br />
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