Favourite change for me is the curation window - a better deal for manual voters.
Also the improved incentives for comments through the change to the rewards curve should help engagement. I assume this happened although I don't see it mentioned anywhere!
It was implemented as part of curation reward changes.
is there still a penalty on comments?
No.
Is your comment votes larger by nearly double?
I see, thanks :)
IMO one of the best things of the HF :)
Now you can convert your hive directly to hbd, too.
Just watch out for fast moving prices because it takes 3.5 days to complete.
The price would have to drop alot for it really matter as it works on a 3 day average price.
But you get the HBD instant right? The Converting is some intern thing as far I know.
You get half instantly, the balance in 3.5 days.
This gives everybody an hbd stabilizer and one that profits for them depending on market conditions.
Strictly speaking, there wasn't a penalty on comments before. The penalty was just on any comment or post that didn't receive enough rshares (voting strength). But the quasi-linear curve code was removed, and I think that is what you're referring to.
I know, it was around 20 hive, so it pretty unlikely a comment receives more :)
It is cool that there is no "penalty" anymore :)
Good to know. It's an important change!