Indeed, I don't
know that he'll run it again in May. But when 6 months from the last run comes up I'm going to nag him to do it.
I got seriously gimped in the last update because I'd been inactive for a while.
BTW today is exaclty 6 months ...
I nagged back on the 4th, 10 days ahead of the 6 month intervals. Theymos indicated that he would be updating it again, but also indicated he'd be doing it differently than last time.
Yes... nice to hear your direct report, Greg....
I am sure that Theymos likes to have a bit of flexibility, but I have observed that he does seem to be a bit of a stickler regarding some timeline things, too... maybe he keeps track if he had said that he was going to do something and in those circumstances, he tries to meet the timeline that he announced, which is fair enough.
Surely, some previous merit sources got reduced in their source the last time around, so for sure, theymos had seemed to had made a pretty large reallocation and even quite generous with the amount of increase that he had provided to those who were regularly using their merit sources, which was nearly a doubling in the amount in a lot of circumstances for those who had been regularly using their smerit sources, and I also noticed a few members who received really large initial smerit allocations when they had been initially assigned as sources.
Perhaps theymos was conducting a little experiment on us, in terms of trying to observe what would happen in such increased source smerit allocation circumstances? I will admit for me, I had to largely get used to doubling the amount of smerits that I had been sending out, which took a bit of time to get used to, even though I did have some advantage of my own past practices of already attempting to exhaust my previous allocation amounts as they came in (or were replenished).
Sure, it will be interesting to see what kind of formula that theymos comes up with in any coming announced update, and based on your finding out that he will "be updating it again," maybe we can speculate that to be a kind of soon
tm proclamation, which is not always within two weeks
tm, even though we happen to be in a subset of bitcoinlandia.
Maybe speculating that such source smerit adjustment might come at any moment could end up including another few more months of wait time for theymos to contemplate and maybe collect data regarding the matter, but of course, I would not be surprise to have a change sprung upon us at any moment.
Brace self!!!
Ps: By the way, I recall one of the earlier times that theymos had readjusted the smerit source allocations (at least mine was then reallocated), and I had gotten 12smerits removed from my smerit source allocation, because I had not used those smerits before the change went into effect (surely a surprise for me, and probably others too), and those 12 unused source smerits had been replaced by an increased smerit allocation that pretty much started the month of smerit source balance over with a new smerit source balance.
On that day (or maybe the next day), I sent a pm to theymos and wrote
paraphrasing: "what's up like that with my loss of 12 smerits in my source?" He responded:
paraphrasing: "you snooze, you lose" hahahahaha....
Surely, my smerit source allocation was not detrimentally impacted by the rebalancing and the loss of those 12 smerit in the source because the new allotment of smerits in my source had been increased in terms of the monthly smerit source amount. Nonetheless, I do understand when a change of the smerit source amount goes into effect, the rebalancing might wipe out some of the previous balance of smerits in your smerit source bank. So there is that angle, too.
