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RE: Author Rewards vs. Curation Rewards
It's probably the same for the me, I must have earned a fair bit once all those $0.025 comment upvotes were added up! Probably more than I do from curation now.
However I always felt that the true value of most comments was much nearer to 0 than to 3 cents, so I've no problem with the new system!
I did earn a lot that way as well! I got some $18 votes from a couple whales on comments, even a $80 from blocktrades once hahaha. I used to farm that. But now that the vote efficiency has been reduced to 50/50 and the vote value has gone down by a lot, people seem to have stopped upvoting as many comments and are instead focusing on using their votes for curation rewards (at least I am).
$80 on a comment?
That must have been a real double take moment!
I did used to put more effort into commenting when there were potential rewards, but I did find it a chore. I've always preferred to earn through posting.
I wonder if @abh12345 could do some analysis of how earnings for votes and comments have changed.
I actually quite like his new alt token system for rewarding comments.
!ENGAGE 20
Yeah! I want to research these tokens since a few days ago when I started getting a few due to my frequent comments.
I never found it bothersome, I read and type really fast, so I can make 30 comments in around 10 to 15 minutes. At that time, I wanted to increase my engagement. Ironic how the token you gave me has that name :P
The premise was that the more comments I made, the more of a chance that someone would click on my name and either follow me or vote a post. It worked better than I expected. I got around 900 followers in a month from 0 and many other benefits such as immediate invitations to join communities, lots of curation, etc.
I think commenting still has those benefits, and since I'm so talkative and happen to be skillful at it, it was never more than a really entertaining and productive pastime.
And if you see those statistics somewhere, do ping me, I'm as interested as you are because I find comment interactivity to be an essential asset on this platform.
You must have come across Asher's engagement leagues?
I have not! Tell me more. :)
Just ask to be added to the list at the bottom of this post, all the details are in it.
https://steempeak.com/hive-174578/@abh12345/the-curation-and-engagement-leagues-facd772e1d4afest
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I think what I miss the most are those orcas and whales who would occasionally throw out some nice meaty upvotes on comments. It was always a welcome surprise. With so much competition on individual posts for curation rewards, it was nice to have something that was all my own.
It did get insane sometimes. I remember getting $20 for a comment once.
The all time record is nearly $3K.
Something not quite right about that though!
That is a little extreme, but if I had been on the receiving end, I probably wouldn't be complaining!
I got $80 once on a comment contest and I was very, very excited about it!
That is awesome!
Same, I subbed to a lot of whales on Gina just to farm the upvotes every day. Made a lot of pocket change from that just by interacting a little. Then I disappeared, and when I came back it was no longer a viable business. Sad!
Yeah, I know, it is pretty sad that has went away. It was smart business though. You find someone with a lot of SP, read their stuff, form a bond and maybe just maybe they reciprocate a little.
Exactly, also had to measure the generosity. Some were extremely generous, while others upvoted like 1 comment or none, so you know where to head lol. I still see some people who upvote most of their comments but they're small like 0.05. Haven't seen the 0.1+ regular votes lately. I could check, maybe there are still a couple people who stayed doing that despite the incentive to change tactics.