How votes work, by voting on articles from people or even threads that don't get voted by others because again discoverability it also means your own personal curation APR is going to suffer. It's why you see everyone pile on and join curation trails to make sure they are getting the most APR out of their votes.
This is an extremely outdated statement that no longer applies. (July 2021)
Curation has been linear for quite a long time now. Cursed Aztec Gold
You get 50% curation no matter what you upvote as long that thing doesn't get downvoted and you vote within the first 24 hours.
Other than that great comment... certainly the reason I don't vote new accounts is that frontends offer very piss-poor curation techniques in this regard. We could obviously benefit from some kind of algorithm or perhaps even hire professional curators who's only job is to find this exact type of content so that not everyone has to engage in such monotonous data filtering.
Ah good to know! I didn't know that changed the payout structure. I thought it was still a weighted system. That's very good to know and wonder if many others still have that same idea from the old school days. Thank you for brining it to my attention so I don't make that mistake in what I tell others rolling forward.
Yeah I forget what hardfork that was but they rolled back a ton of the old economic incentives. That hardfork was glorious basically it felt like a lot of my ideas were implemented.
Hardfork 25 Goes off without a Hitch.
Found it...