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An Accidental Discovery - POB isn't 50/50 at all ?

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Good afternoon to everyone , I had promised you guys I would provide you data of how POB rewards would have been if it was 75/25 .

How did I plan to do this ? I basically retrieved all the data from the beginning for POB and converted the 50/50 ( that's what I initially thought ) to 75/25 .

The mismatch

So let me explain with an example of how I stumbled upon this.

  1. Let's say a post made by me gets 40 POB upvote. Now after 7 days , there is a split of 50/50 to authors and curators . 20 POB should go to author and 20 should go to curator .

  2. Now if it was 75/25 , then author gets 30 and curators gets 10 .

  3. So obviously the formula we have to use now to simulate is - author_rewards 1.5 and curator_rewards 0.5.

  4. Example : 20 1.5 = 30 ( author rewards ) and 20 0.5 = 10 ( curation rewards ) .

Note: If the author hasn't posted from POB front end or if he has set beneficiary then all of the rewards will go from the 30 POB author rewards itself .

But basically 40 remains 40 POB itself but no matter what I did , I just couldn't match both the payouts .

Every single time the simulated payout was more than the actual 50/50 payout which isn't possible unless my code is wrong or my calculations are wrong .

So I spent awful lot of time on this to be honest because I wanted to figure out what I am doing wrong and then it occured to me , what if I am not wrong ? ( lol ) .

Am I wrong ?

I came to know by individual observation that the author rewards 1.5 and curation reward 0.5 was wrong but I just couldn't figure out why .

The reason ?

POB isn't 50/50 at all ? That made sense to me and the 4 hours that I spent retrieving the data again and again , checking every line of code again and again seemed worth it . But really ? we have been on POB for 3 months now and we didn't come across this ( or did I never come across this ? )

47.36 / 52.64 split

Strange ?

Check this out

Post-link

You can calculate the % for these .

  • 5.34 / 11.2733 = 47.36 %
  • 5.93 / 11.2733 = 52.64 %

Another example -

Post-link

  • 1.8706 / 3.9491 = 47.36 %
  • 2.078 / 3.9491 = 52.64%

Then I thought to myself , is it because of some criteria like not posting from POB front-end?

I thought of checking that out too -

Scenario 1 - Non POB front-end .

Here is a post of mine which I have posted from LeoFinance front-end .

Post-link

  • 107.897 / 227.783 = 47.36 %
  • 119.885 / 227.783 = 52.64 %

Scenario 2 - Using POB front-end .

Here is a post of mine which I have posted from POB front-end .

Post-link

  • 88.207 / 186.2154 = 47.36 %

  • 98.008 / 186.2154 = 52.64 %

STEMGeeks and SPORTSTALKSOCIAL

Then I decided to check out other front-ends which are similar to POB .

STEMGeeks example

  1. Post-link

  1. Post-link

SportsTalkSocial

  1. [Post-Link[(https://www.sportstalksocial.com/hive-193552/@harpreetjanda/qtf21y)

CTP which has 60/40 rewards split .

CTP from the beginning has a 60/40 reward split instead of 50/50 . 60% goes to authors and 40% to curators .

  1. Post-link

  • 12.609 / 21.015 = 60%
  • 8.406 / 21.015 = 40%

Even if it is true , so what ? It is just 2%

For some people it is just 2% , for some it is "2.64%". Every single percent matters is what I believe ( atleast in the long term ) .

So am I 100% sure ?

  1. I would love to be proved wrong to be honest but I don't think it is just a UI glitch since I cross checked some of the author rewards and curation rewards and they match .
  2. It is possible that this is the actual case and I am totally unaware of it till now . If yes please let me know in the comments about the official announcement ?
  3. It is necessary that we fix this ASAP or accept the 47.36 / 52.64% split ? It is good to have a discussion atleast .

Check out your posts itself and try to calculate the rewards . Let me know if something I mentioned here is wrong .

Update

Thanks to @minus-pi for pointing out .

Looks like it is indeed a display issue .

Quoting @minus-pi

I think it's a frontend/display thing. taking this non-POB example you posted: https://www.proofofbrain.io/hive-167922/@amr008/updating-the-engagement-project-for-pob-50-engagers-gets-upvotes-instead-of-25-from-now-on if you check the scot-bot data, you can see that the 'actual' total payout value was 237.7 POB, not the 227 shown on the frontend: this was distributed to author and curators: - author, 50% - 10% tax: 237.7 / 2 * 0.9 = 107.xx POB - curators, 50%: 237.7/2 = 119.xx POB for the second non-POB example the frontend seems to do the same calculation as above. But the API data shows that both author and curator rewards were 98.xx POB. So the frontend did not take into account that the post was created via POB.

For those who didn't understand this part .

  1. So looks like the 10% tax is first deducted and then the amount of POB paid out is displayed( if it has displayed complete amount including tax , then it would have showed the correct 50/50 split) .

So it means that 2. The 10% tax is not only for the posts / comments made from the non-native frontend but also from the POB frontend too . So each and every post and comment has a 10% tax . 3. The tax goes to @pob-fund .

Tagging @dagger212 , @riandeuk , @young-boss-karin , @edystringz , @gadrian , @espandorr , @cwow2 , @coffeelovers , @por50bolos who already looked at this post and replied to it .

Regards, MR.

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