Curation rewards are linear, you should be getting ~9%.
Unless, you vote after 24hrs, then you lose a portion of your curation rewards to the earlier voters.
There are 3 windows, each progressively more taxing.
Your vote mana also has impact on your vote value.
Voting your mana from 100% to 90% will return less than voting your mana from 90% to 80%.
Max return is by voting 100% every ~2.4 hours.
You may need to increase your voting percentages to avoid making dust votes on comments.
.019 and less does not payout.
If you are the sole voter on a comment, and your vote is less than .02, it will not pay out.
I'd advise against selling your vote to any of the curation gangs, it makes it more difficult for those of us that play the game as designed rather than gang up to increase rewards.
Also, if you are getting paid in another token you are selling your vote for them to get a hive return now while you are unlikely to ever sell the token for what you could have had if you had just played the game as designed.
Thank you for your feedback, I think this is the answer that I am looking for. It gives me realization somehow.
But I still have some questions, if the curation rewards is linear, what does the APR percentage that shows at Hivestats? Is it inaccurate?
I will take note of your suggestion, I'm fully invested in the community and trying to accumulate more Hive and HP rather than other tokens. It is my original plan.
Hivestats may not be accurate 100%, but it should be close enough.
Somebody voting after 24 hours increases your rewards according to the window they vote in.
24hrs, day 2 to 4, and day 5 to 7, iirc.
If somebody votes a post you voted on day one on day seven, then you get a portion of their curation rewards.
So, curation can vary alot.
If you want to maximize returns you will want to power up 100% on your posts.
Only when hbd is over 1usd do you get less.
Until hbd goes over 1usd and stays there for an extended period will you get a better return than powering it all up.
Thank you for this, I fully understand it now.
The reason why I don't set my rewards into 100% HP is I join with HPUD event. But I never really cash out or withdraw from Hive since I joined. I am just inactive a bit that's why I only have few HP until now.
Your comment really helps, thanks!