Less value was given to authors this month, with the average payout being down as well.
Before reading on, I actually noticed this lately. A lot of people barely breaking $3. The few autovoted people performing just as well as ever, but manual curation looks a bit like a wasteland.
With the growth of my own account, (which has been significant this month - I've posted everyday and have been setting to 100% power up until I'm an Orca) - I am going to always curate manually. I currently do this from a combination of my new (first place I look) - my own feed, then the communities feed.
I also tend to reward genuine engagement in the comments. This only looks at post data, but I am suspecting that a bit more of the reward pool is now going to comments with the increase in use of threads, snaps, and waves. (And the use of commentrewarder)
I've had a bit of a kick between the legs with business related costs over the past month but I'm back with the 100% rewards too. Also want to build a bit more HBD savings again. Post rewards over the past week have been quite low for me but that's another reason to push up the HBD and hedge against the lack of attention. ;^)
I actually just remembered about it the other day and have as of today started to use it again. Curious as to whether it makes any difference in that aforementioned attention. Will be an interesting test in whether the lack of comments/curation comes from attention spans or just genuine disinterest.
Or gets people flocking to your content to leave meaningless statements in the hopes that they'll farm some additional reward.
I have seen both sides of the coin, me, I'm going to reply with intent and detail whether comment rewarder is turned on or not, because that is what I enjoy about hive!
That's pretty much what stopped me from using it way back. I noticed a lot of the comments were quite effortless, and I just didn't end up voting on any and would end up getting refunded the percentage. Maybe now some of that commentrewarder 'hype' has stabilised though and people pay less attention to it. Or, at least I'd hope haha
Yeah. I think the @topcomment initiative has been quite good for that side of things. Finding the more authentic engagements to reward and which appear to be less surrounded by some sort of incentive (commentrewarder, whale attention if they're the poster).
I still have eyes on the top spot of that topcomment leaderboard :P I'll get there one day!