Downvotes are always here to moderate any payout before the post is actually paid out - as you mentioned, I get downvoted with say $80+ posts, and I don't really mind, although I always do my best.
I'm here for almost five years and never had a blog with $80+ rewards, not even above $50 if I remember 😂
The most successful travel posts of mine got even over $100, but that depends mainly on the current price. Here's a post from this Sunday for inspiration, one of these downvoted for excessive payout: https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@godfish/the-travelers-guide-to-getting-around-in-brazil-87m
I even have this badge for one of such posts:
Congrats! Travel blogs and music videos often do well.
Thanks :) Mine often have 1000+ words in two languages and no machine translation, so I believe they are kinda deserved :)
Although I'm not doubting the quality of your blog because I can see you really spend time creating yours. But when I compare it with other high quality blog of the same length that get 1/10 th of the rewards it seems a bit unfair. And not because you get this reward this time, but there are more hivers that get those rewards frequently.
Wouldn't you be happy when your blog would have received a bit less, like $50?
I'd still be happy. I even said I didn't mind having a portion of the payout cut down in the original comment.
This particular one, on the other hand, is original even compared to content outside Hive. I am not sure how about in English, but if I wrote something like that in Czech, it could be published in one of our travel magazines, and paid even better ;)
Congrats! I never made it into this league!
Thanks :) Getting this one isn't easy :))